Chapter 10
Sol had gone back to the tent and continued to search for the openings to the bunker. She read through her father's journal again and still couldn't see where the Lincoln memorial came into it. The first clue could be about the world. The second was definitely a code of some kind, but the words must be old words from way before the war by maybe a few hundred years. What did 'hark' mean anyway? What were 'herald's angels'? Who was the newborn king? 'Hark' didn't sound like a name so she didn't think it referred to Hark, the herald angel. If Hark was an angel, what did he do? This was really confusing. She needed help. She left the tent with the clues and a pen and clean piece of paper. She saw Jake giving Rory some food. She went over to him.
"Hey, Jake?"
"Yeah," he said, looking at her.
"I need some help deciphering these clues. Can you help me?"
"I can try," he said, gesturing to the seat beside him on the log opposite the one Rory sat on.
"What's the problem?"
"Do you know any latin?"
"Latin? A little, why?"
"The first clue is 'Sic transit gloria mundi'. Any idea what it means?"
"Yeah, it means 'Thus passes the glory of the world'.
Sol was silent for a moment.
"I thought that had already happened?" said Sol. "I mean the world as our people knew it has ended. There's a new order to the world now. I think the Arkers would think the glory of the world had passed." Jake sat and ruminated on that.
"Maybe that is what it means. Once the world as our ancestors knew it has gone, the bunkers will be needed, hence, 'thus passes the glory of the world'.
"Okay, that sort of makes sense."
"What's the next clue?" asked Raven, joining them.
"'Hark the Herald's angels sing, glory to the newborn king'.
"What does that mean?!" asked Raven.
"Don't know, that's what I need help with."
"Well, Hark is an old word meaning 'to listen'," said Jake.
"To listen?" said Sol.
"Yeah, I read some of the older stories by those authors from the 15th and 16th centuries and when someone would mean listen, they would say hark."
"So hark the herald's angels sing, could mean listen to the angels sing?" asked Rory.
"We call the morning birdsong the heralds angels," said Indra coming over.
"The dawn chorus?" asked Sol.
"If that's what you call it."
"So 'listen to the dawn chorus'," said Rory. "Or maybe listen FOR the dawn chorus."
"Not any wiser though and what about the newborn king?"
"Not a clue. Indra, does it mean anything to you?"
"No."
"You find anything else?"
"Only that under Dupont Circle is an underground railway, but I don't think it's connected to the metro. I think we need to see if we can find it."
"How far away is it?"
"Only about a kilometer."
"We use feet and inches and miles," said Indra.
"Err… just under a mile, I think."
"What direction?" she said.
"Slightly north of northeast." Indra nodded and tried to mentally map out the area they needed to go to.
"We can go there in a couple of days," Indra said. "What are you looking for?"
"My great-great-great-grandfather was a military man who was instrumental in building underground bunkers in case of nuclear war," Sol said. "I've got his diaries and I'm trying to decipher his riddles to find an entrance."
"Why? Do you want to keep it for your people?"
"No. After hearing about that second deathwave, I'm trying to find it for everyone to use. He built a whole load of these bunkers and then interconnected them." Indra frowned, not knowing that word.
"He joined them all together," Sol explained.
"How big?" asked Indra. Sol grabbed a map of America and showed her the area of the main entrances. Indra was astonished. It was huge!
"You must show the Commander!" Indra said, getting to her feet. Sol nodded, also getting to her feet.
"Commander!" Indra said, standing just outside her tent.
"Enter." Indra and Sol entered the tent and both bowed to her.
"What is it, Indra?"
"Sol found something on one of her maps - a very large underground bunker."
"What is a bunker?"
"It's a place to live if there is a disaster on the ground, Commander," said Sol. "Something like Mount Weather. A self-contained world."
"How big is it?"
"Large enough for ALL the clans, Commander. There are entrances to it to the north, south, here, and way out to the west, maybe even past your territories." The Commander's eyebrows rose.
"Do you know where it is?"
"No, Commander. There are a series of clues and riddles my 3 times great grandfather left behind. I have those and I'm trying to solve them."
"Do you have any solved?"
"The first one is in an old language called Latin. It says 'Sic transit gloria mundi', which means 'thus passes the glory of the world'."
"Well that has certainly happened," said the Commander.
"Yes, Commander. The second one Indra has helped me with but we still don't have it fully solved."
"Which is?"
"'Hark the herald's angels sing, glory to the newborn king'."
"Herald's angels? That's the bird's song in the morning. It heralds the beginning of a new day."
"Well that could be it," mused Sol, thinking. "I mean there's an old story about how the sun and the moon got to the sky. I'm not exactly sure of the who and why's but it's about a woman called Luna - the moon - who is pursued by a man called Sol - sun, and has no relation to me. He kept chasing her and to be free of him, she took to the sky and became the moon, but he wouldn't give up and he too flew up to the skies and became the sun. Now they eternally run around the world, the sun forever chasing the moon."
"How is this helpful?"
"Well if the sun is male, then maybe the newborn king is the dawn of a new day."
"Does this help?"
"Not at the moment, Commander, but I think with the other clues solved, it'll tell us what to do and given that the new day starts over each day, it's a time reference. I think that whatever we need to do to get into the bunker, happens at daybreak or just after."
"Any other clues?"
"The third one is 'the circle goes under, the ring is the key'."
"Any ideas on that one?"
"Yes, Commander. I found a place called Dupont Circle. It's about a kilometer away - just under a mile. There are some roads that go under it, but there's also part of an old rail system down there too. I think the entrance is in there somewhere. The part about a ring, I still don't understand yet."
"So what do you want to do?"
"I want to go find that entrance. Commander, if we find that entrance and can get in, Raven and Jake can check to see if it's usable. If it is, then you have a place to take shelter if the world ends again."
"What about the rest of your people?"
"They will be coming down, Commander. Their air supply is running out and they can't get anymore. In order to survive, they'll be coming down. When they do, I want a place they can live above ground. Only if the bunker is needed will my people enter it. I'm determined that none of my people will take it over."
"Can you stop them?"
"We can if they don't know about it. If we find a place for them away from other villages, but near a river or stream, with good farming places and areas where we can build our houses, then I think they should stay there."
"And what about you?"
"I would like to stay here, Commander. I need to find that bunker. Once we find one entrance, we can hopefully find the others. I know this will be hard, but the other clans must not know of it or they too will try to take it over - or one part of it and will try to keep as many others out of it as they can. From what I've learned, your kongeda is still fairly new and the clans are still arguing and sniping at each other. They do not yet trust the other clans except for those they have been in alliance with in the past."
"True," said the Commander. "For now, we keep this secret. We can tell them only if they need to take shelter in it."
"Yes, Commander," said both Indra and Sol.
"Take Sol and one of the others and find this place," the Commander said to Indra.
"Sha, heda." Indra and Sol bowed once more and left the tent.
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"We think we've figured some of the clues out," said Sol, sitting down on the log beside Jake. "We think we need to be at Dupont Circle at dawn. That's as far as we've gotten. Indra is taking me and one of you to where she thinks it should be and we get to dig until we find it."
"Can we narrow it down some?" asked Raven.
"Unless you can find one of those computers that shows the entire city and can zoom in, then, no."
"What about the Ark? Can they help?"
"Don't really want to tell them just yet. If we ask them to search for Dupont Circle, we'd have to tell them why."
"So do it secretly, Sol," said Raven, trying to point out the obvious.
"We could ask Clarke or Monty to do it," mused Sol, pulling at her bottom lip while thinking.
"Yeah, but they'd have to do it on the quiet."
"I know. I don't really want to let Abby or Kane know just yet." Jake looked upset. "I know you want to tell your wife everything, Jake, but remember what the others said about what Abby was like the first time around. Do you really want your wife to revert back to that because she doesn't want to live in a primitive village with no decent medical supplies or equipment?" Jake thought about it and reluctantly nodded.
"I'll keep quiet, but I don't like it."
"No-one does, Jake. I have to keep this from my sister, Rory has to keep it from both of her children and Raven will have to keep it from Monty. We all have people we want to tell, but until we know where it is and if we'd all fit into it, I want it kept from the Arkers. They'd want to live there because it's what they are used to. They need to start thinking about living ON the ground, and not in a tunnel system free from outside interference."
"Okay," said Jake.
"Now who wants to come with me?"
Jake and Raven looked at each other, neither liking the thought of trekking through a forest digging holes to find a lost place.
"Okay, fine," said Sol, seeing both of them hesitate, "Rory, think of a number, but don't say it out loud. You two, whoever gets the closest stays here."
"Okay," said Rory. "Got one."
"Raven, you go first."
"This isn't really fair you know, how do we know roughly what that number is?"
"You don't and that's the point."
"Okay, 126," said Raven, folding her arms and frowning.
"Jake?"
"1720."
"Rory?"
"The answer is 99."
"Yes!" yelled Raven, "Woo hoo! I win!" she thrust her fists into the air and did a little happy dance.
"Alright, no need to be a bad winner," grumbled Jake.
"Come on Jake, let's get some shovels and our packs. We may be gone for a few days."
"Days!? You never said we'd be gone for days!"
"We dig until we can't or until we find it." Sol shrugged her shoulders.
"Fine, but Raven has to persuade Clarke to get more information on Dupont Circle," said Jake.
"Yep, no problem," said Raven, still smiling. Rory was shaking her head at Raven's antics, but she too was smiling.
"When she does, she'll have to trek to wherever we are to give us the information," said Sol, smiling. Jake's smile grew and Raven's fell.
"Knew there was a catch, somewhere!" muttered Raven.
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When Sol and Jake left with Indra and a couple of warriors, Raven fired up the radio to the higher frequencies and called her den.
"Come in, den, come in, den, anyone there?"
"Clarke here, Raven. It's good to hear your voice."
"You too, Clarke. Are you alone?"
"Yep, what's up?"
"I'm alone too, but don't talk too loud, I'm only in a tent."
"Okay."
"Clarke, we've been trying to find a hidden bunker down here. Sol and Jake have gone off in a general direction but we need you to do some research up there for us."
"What bunker?" asked Clarke.
"According to Sol, one of her ancestors was a military man who helped to design and build some underground bunkers in case of nuclear war. This is NOT Mount Weather, Clarke, nor Second Dawn. The entrance to this bunker is somewhere around the old Dupont Circle. Apparently there was an old rail system under it. Sol thinks the entrance is down there. She said there was an old entrance somewhere on the north side of the circle. Can you find anything out about it please? We need to narrow it down."
"Will do. Do you want me to tell the others?"
"Not yet. Sol's concerned that the Arkers will want to take it over and live there. Sol wants to use it as a shelter if another deathwave hits. She doesn't remember the last time because she's from Factory Station and didn't survive the crash."
"Okay, I'll see what I can do. When do you need this info?"
"As soon as possible. With Sol and your dad off digging here, there and everywhere, I'm sure they'd want to know as soon as possible, so they can hone in on where they need to be."
"Alright, I'll go to the library after my shift and then call you back tonight with any info I find."
"Thanks Clarke. Tomorrow's soon enough."
"Good, now what else is going on down there?"
"Well your girlfriend is here. I can get her for you if you like."
"Yes, please, I miss her and I know we'll probably not come down for another year and I really want to hear her voice."
"Okay, hang on and I'll go get her." Raven went and got the Commander.
"Press this button to speak and let it go to listen." The Commander nodded. She pushed the button.
"Clarke?"
"I'm here, Lexa, it's so good to hear your voice," Clarke said.
"Yours too. I wish you were down here and I could hold you."
"Me too, Lex, me too."
They talked for several minutes before Lexa was called away. Clarke went to do some research and Nyko attended to Rory. Raven sighed, she watched as the people around her were working, sitting and chatting or eating. There was always something to do. Right now, Raven was twiddling her thumbs wating for either Clarke or Sol and Jake to say they've found something. Raven didn't do well with inactivity. She found that her mind tended to wander and up on the Ark, it usually got her in trouble. Down here, she knew that wandering off to explore would get her injured or killed. She got up and went to Anya and asked if someone could teach her archery. Anya assigned Walker to show her how to use a bow and then teach her how to make one herself. Raven sighed in happiness. This was something useful and needed. Now she wouldn't get into too much trouble until the others called in.
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The next day, Clarke radioed in that she'd found a little bit more information and a photograph of the entranceway, which was painted red. Raven thanked Clarke and went to Anya and asked for a guide to take her to Sol to give her the information. Two hours later Raven walked into the clearing where Sol and Jake had dug a shallow trench. They were just pulling up the surface grasses to check for any walls or ground. So far, they'd uncovered three walls - none of them were connected, but they were visible under the grass. They stopped when they saw Raven.
"Hey, Raven," said Sol, before she chugged down some water. Jake did the same and they both sat down, panting hard.
"Been busy?" asked Raven, raising an eyebrow as she looked around.
"We've found some walls, but without a reference, we don't know if this is the correct place."
"Well, I've been in touch with Clarke and she's found a little bit more information. She saw a photograph of the entrance to the underground railway and said it was surrounded by a low wall, painted red. The photo showed a metal railing on top of the wall and the words 'Dupont Underground'."
"That's more than we had before," said Sol. "Anything else?"
"There was a metal street lamp painted red just by the entrance which had a gate."
"Anything about how to find it?"
"No, nothing. Oh, she did say that on the opposite side of the circle was New Hampshire Avenue, and one of the entrances used to be there, but she couldn't find any info on if the entrance was still open just before the war. She said that the circle was about 530 feet across."
"Don't suppose you brought a tape measure, did you?"
"Nope," said Raven, sitting down and looking around. "Do you think any of these walls are part of this circle?"
"I hope so, I don't like to think that we're digging in the wrong place!"
"Well, back to it," said Jake, getting up. Sol also got up and Raven stayed where she was. Sol turned to look at her and raised her eyebrows.
"Oh, no. I won and I don't have to dig!" said Raven, vehemently. Sol shrugged and returned to her work. Jake was digging along one wall and Sol was on the other digging along another. It was a few hours later and Raven had already gone back to Tondc, when Jake called her over.
"Look! Red bricks!" Jake said, excitedly. Sol grinned and laughed.
"Let's widen this and make sure we're on the outside of it instead of on the inside where we could fall into the hole."
"Definately," said Jake. They worked for another hour and had dug around the brickwork, finding twisted metal laying on the ground around it.
"Well, that looks like the entrance," said Jake, leaning on his shovel. Sol was squatting down, rubbing at a part of the wall.
"I'd say so, there're words on this wall. I can make out 'Upo nder'. That would fit if Dupont was written above underground. Jake nodded.
"Now what?"
"We need to be careful when digging it out. We have no idea what it's like down there. For all we know, it could have been a place for people to dump their rubbish." Jake grunted.
It took them the rest of the day to dig through the layers for soil and muck that had filled in the top of the entrance. They stopped for the night and would explore it in the morning. Both of them found different places in the nearby stream to wash up and put on relatively clean clothes before eating and falling onto their sleeping bags, asleep before they knew it.
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Up on the Ark
The ones on the Ark had all gathered in the radio room to discuss what to do and when.
"We need to find out what Jaha did," said Kane.
"We need to know what can be done to save everyone," said Clarke.
"What needs to be done first?" asked Bellamy.
"I need to go through Jaha's office and find out whatever I can. I may have to do some things to reverse some of his ideas and motions, but I hope he wasn't so far into his own superiority that he actually did anything too illegal."
"Anything illegal is a floatable offence, Kane," said Erin.
"I know, but he thought as he was Chancellor, that made him immune and that he was above the law. I'm hoping that he didn't have any of the guards doing the same thing. Some of them would have abused that."
"Shit, Kane! They abuse their power every day in lockup!"
"Meaning?"
"Not one day goes by when a guard doesn't harass one of the prisoners. They pick on one each day and every time they enter the prison, they seek out whichever kid they've picked and hound them and harass them and pull them out of their cell and toss it, then get the kid to clean it up while they watch and then they do it again. Some of those guards take pleasure in being sadistic!"
"I never knew this!" Kane said, horrified at the thought.
"Kane, you were the head of security. You just told others what to do and left them to it. Did it not occur to you to actually check on them from time to time?"
"No." said Kane after a few moments. "No, I didn't. I assumed all guards had the same sense of duty I did," he admitted.
"You really think Shumway was just another guard who played by the rules?" asked Monty, incredulously.
Kane thought about it and realised they were right. He had been incredibly stupid in not figuring out some of the guards would be corrupted by the power they wielded.
"I didn't know," he said, ashamed that he didn't even think about it.
"Well, now you do, you can do something about it. First off, you'd better appoint a new head of security otherwise Shumway will just assume the role and then who knows what kind of trouble we'll be in," said Clarke. "We do not need a mutiny and someone stealing one of the exodus ships," she continued. She was aware that half of those in the room did not know of the past life, but Clarke wasn't above using small reminders of it to make sure Kane did the right thing.
"They wouldn't, would they?" asked Abby.
"I think Shumway is more than capable of staging either a coup or a mutiny, mom. Some people only think about themselves and what they need. How many people do you know - Alpha included - that are like that?"
"Quite a few, actually," said Abby when she'd had time to think about it.
"So we need to make sure that those ships are in good condition, but not so good that they are actually usable until we need them to be," Clarke said. She was not going to let Diana Sydney do that a second time!
"I agree," said Kane. "I'll get with Sinclair to make sure that those ships are ready only when I say they need to be."
"I suggest you use Kyle Wick, Kane. Sinclair is more of a Jaha person and would most likely do something to help 'his' Chancellor."
"Don't be ridiculous, Clarke!" her mother said. "Jacapo Sinclair is an honest man and will do what is right."
"Mom, he'll do what he thinks is right and to him, that means helping Jaha."
"Ladies, I think you're both right. Sinclair is the head of engineering and will be the one to check on the exodus ships, but I'll have Kyle Wick check to make sure that they are not quite ready to use."
"How are you going to do that, without going behind Sinclair's back and making it look like you don't trust him?" Kane pondered on that for a few minutes.
"I'll ask Sinclair to concentrate on making the new ships and tell him that Wick can check on the exodus ships to make sure they are in good condition for when we need them," he said. Clarke nodded. It was good enough.
"Now, what else," he asked.
"If we can't all go down in the ships, can we separate one of the stations and take that down?" asked Clarke.
"Yeah," said Octavia. "If all the ships we've got or can build are not enough, do you really want to tell some people that they can't go down?"
"No, and you are right. We'd just have to make sure that whichever station goes down, would have the best chance at survival," Kane said.
"Well, Wick could check on that too," said Octavia.
"Good, anything else?" Kane asked. Headshakes and no's were given all around. Kane nodded and they all left the room except for Erin who had radio duty.
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Kane walked into Jaha's office and looked around. He saw a neat and tidy space with a desk and chair dead centre of the back wall, facing the door. To the right were seats and a low table and to the left were filing cabinets. Kane went over to the desk and sat down. He went through the papers on his desk. Nothing other than routine maintenance reports. He opened the top drawer on the left-hand side of the desk. Pens, paper, paperclips, odds and ends, but nothing useful - or incriminating. Next he opened the bottom draw of the two draws on that side. A small filing cabinet opened and he pulled out the first file. List of everyone on the Ark, but some of the names had been crossed out with other names had a question mark beside them. He pulled out another file. A partial list of guards. Kane stopped. What if this was a list of Jaha's guards, one's he'd recruited for whatever he was planning? He checked the names again and then pulled up the prison records on the computer. After an hour he sat back, amazed at the number of Jaha's guards that were the arresting officers. He wondered if those kids had actually committed a crime or whether Jaha or his guards were just arresting random kids for some reason.
The next thing he pulled from the deep draw was a small bag. He opened it and found some mechanical parts. Kane frowned. Why would he have these in his desk drawer? He had more questions than he had in the beginning and no answers so far. A third file was pulled out from under the bag. It had been laid flat on the bottom of the drawer. He opened it and saw a list of accidents and their dates. Kane was shocked to see that some of those dates were yet to happen! This was a list of deliberate tampering to cause those accidents. He looked at the ones with the biggest number of projected casualties. Sector 17 due in a year's time. Estimated loss of life was around 300! Kane had no idea that in his last life, Jaha was this callous and uncaring. Oh, he knew about the 300, but he didn't know it was planned so far in advance!
Just how callous was Jaha and how did he become like that? Kane had known him his whole life, they'd both grown up in Alpha. Even when they were small children, Jaha was known as a sweet boy who'd do anything for anyone. Now he was a hardened man who had no use for human life other than his family and his followers.
Kane next turned his attention to the right hand drawers. The top one only had a bunch of personal items, the second held some clothing and the third had a box shoved to the back. He picked it up and looked at it. He tried to open it but it was locked. He searched the draws for the key and eventually found one. He inserted the key and turned it. The lock sprang open and he lifted the lid. In it he found some papers. The top one had his marriage certificate, his birth certificate along with his wife's and his sons and a copy of his wife's death certificate.
Underneath all of them was another envelope. It was a document that had never been filed. It was a letter from a woman who had been floated 20 years previously according to the additional paperwork with it. On the document it said that Jaha was the father of her child. Kane stopped. If Jaha had acknowledged the child, then Wells would never have been born. A DNA test of the baby would confirm he was the father. Kane read on. Jaha had had the mother of his child floated so she wouldn't tell. Kane dropped the paper and put his head in his hands. This was a mess! Killing a woman all because he couldn't keep it in his pants! Kane didn't know if he should make it public or not. Wells hadn't done anything wrong and he would be the subject of harassment and bullying. On the Ark, there were a whole lot of 'sins of the father' being carried out - especially on anyone born to the privileged.
Kane kept on looking, what other secrets was Jaha hiding?
One more document caught his eye. It was a deal he made with Aurora Blake. Her daughter would be set free if Aurora went straight to the floating chamber instead of a trail. It was signed by both people, but it seemed that as soon as Aurora was held pending going to the ground, he reneged on the deal. Kane wondered how many more people he'd made a deal with, only to go back on his word. He knew that was what happened to Sol and Erin, but how many more were there?
Kane got up and opened the first filing cabinet. As expected these were the official documents about the everyday decisions made on the Ark, maintenance reports, sickbay reports, inventory lists, population lists, everything that was above board seemed to be in here. He knew Jaha would not have put any incriminating stuff in these filing cabinets, but where would he hide them? Kane searched the office, but even though he was one of the security experts, hiding stuff was not his forte. He made a decision and went to see Clarke.
Clarke was at home alone, which was a good thing. When Clarke opened the door and let him in, he sat on a chair.
"I need to ask you a rather delicate question. I'd rather you didn't tell anyone about this, especially your mother or the Blakes."
"What is it, Kane?"
"I've been searching through Jaha's office and found enough incriminating evidence to have him floated. I know there's got to be more, but I have no idea where to look."
"Yeah, well, don't look at me, I wouldn't know either."
"I know, but you were the leader of 100 criminals, Clarke. Do you know someone who could help me find the things he had hidden and keep their mouth shut?"
"They're criminals for a reason, Kane. Most of them would do anything to put one over on Jaha, but they wouldn't keep it to themselves."
"I suspect that not all of those kids are guilty, Clarke. I found a document with a list of guards' names. Not all the guards were listed - in fact, only a dozen or so were. I think they were guards that Jaha corrupted and were working for him and not the Chancellor or the Ark. I checked on the computer about the arresting officers for anyone in lockup and most of them were arrested by Jaha's guards. I suspect that those kids were picked on for a reason, what that reason is, I have no idea."
"So we need to go through each kid's files and figure out who was innocent, good at hiding stuff or good at finding things they shouldn't," said Clarke.
"Yes, that's about the size of it."
"Well, let's start with Murphy. He's good at the sneaky side of things, but he was put in lockup for setting a guard's quarters on fire."
"I think I'll go look up which guard arrested his father," said Kane. If it's the same one, I hope that doesn't mean some kind of conspiracy."
"Murphy's not the only one, Kane. Lisa Warren, Katie Stano, Spencer Mill and Justin Giles were all in for burglary."
"Think one of them was set up?"
"More than likely, Kane. If only a dozen guards have arrested the majority of those in the Skybox, then you definitely have some kind of conspiracy going on. Jaha wasn't in this alone. I think Shumway or someone else in a position of authority was his right hand man." Kane's sudden intake of breath was audible.
"You really think so?"
"Jaha would not be the one giving his guards or anyone else he'd recruited, his direct orders. Can you really see him sneaking around the Ark, trying not to be discovered? No, he had help. He may have been running the show, but someone else was pulling their strings."
"Dammit!" Kane said, letting slip what he was thinking.
"We need to find them, Kane. It's going to come down to us and them eventually. We just have to make sure that we are the ones who get to the ground and if there's time or room, we'll bring them down with us and punish them."
"You think they'll go that far? Leave us up here to die?"
"Yes. Remember how callous and uncaring Diana Sydney was? According to mom, she took the ship away from the Ark without decoupling first. They Ark lost so much oxygen that some of you nearly died. Sydney didn't care about anyone but herself and her cronies, and she only cared about them because she could order them around. She never got over the fact that she was no longer in charge when Jaha became Chancellor - just like Jaha on the ground. It's the loss of power they miss, not doing good for their community, which is what the Chancellor is supposed to do."
Kane nodded. He remembered what Jaha was like when Abby was the Chancellor - and he was afraid that Abby was also like that. She never wanted to give up being the Chancellor when Clarke was trying to keep the peace with the grounders. Abby held onto her power and was almost dictatorial in her governing of the remains of the Ark.
All three of them had been corrupted by power. Abby by being on the council, and the other two as Chancellor. Kane wondered if he himself would have been like that if they hadn't gone to the ground and realised that if it hadn't been for the kids on the ground getting in contact with the Ark, he would have been the same. Kill the workers to save the priviledged. It was a thought that sickened him.
"I'll look into those five and then ask your opinion on their crimes," said Kane.
"If we can get Murphy to remember, he could be an invaluable tool," said Clarke.
"Would you know his recall word?"
"Probably his girlfriend, Emori." Kane nodded again.
"Yes, that would be the most likely word. Well I'll be off. I'll contact you when I've looked at their records."
"Bye Kane."
Kane left, trying to recall the names and faces of any of the other kids.