It had taken almost an hour and a half before Clarke announced that the three of them that had gotten injured were fully patched up.

Once Lexa was sure they were each going to be ok, she took Raven's arm and pulled her aside, "I need you to come down with me to the gates. The bodies will still be there and we need to find out more about whoever they were." Lexa whispered quickly.

Raven just looked at her unsurely, "You want me to come, couldn't one of the others-"

"Raven relax." Lexa smiled reassuringly, "You're just as capable as any one of them, all I need is for you to bring your bow and make sure no one kills me while I get a better look. Ok?"

"Ok." Raven nodded quickly, glancing back towards the room where the others were tiredly draped across each other on the couches, "Let's go now."

Leading them out, Lexa headed straight for the gates, nodding at her guards as they slipped past.

They both took a long minute, scanning the treeline with their eyes to make sure no one was still out there.

"I can't see anyone." Raven said finally. "You?"

"Nothing." Lexa muttered, not sounding pleased about it.

"What's wrong?" Raven asked her, confused as to why Lexa seemed almost disappointed that there were no other potential attackers lurking in the trees.

Shaking her head, Lexa looked over the edge of the forest one more time, "It just worries me that this seemed like a lazy attack. It doesn't feel like the end of whatever this was."

"I've got your back, you have a look and then we can go from there." Raven reassured her softly, "Maybe this was just a sloppy isolated incident and nothing else will happen."

"Perhaps." Lexa mused, before shaking her head as if to clear her thoughts and dropping to her knee beside the body of the man Raven had put an arrow through.

"That's odd."

Raven looked down quickly from her post of loyally watching for danger to glance at Lexa's face, "What is it?"

"He's Azgeda." Lexa muttered, before quickly going to check the markings of the other fallen. "They were all Azgeda."

"Why would Roan be attacking you?" Raven asked, "I thought he was one of your most trusted Clan Leaders."

Lexa nodded, "He is, there's no way Roan would send attackers to Polis. And we would have heard if anything had happened to him. That's why this is so odd."

"Well what do we do?"

Holding up her hands helplessly, Lexa just stared off into the forest, "I don't know, I need to go to Azgeda, but there's been an attack on Polis. I can't just leave it."

"Well who else would you normally send?" Raven asked quickly, "If you have to stay here then send someone you trust."

"Ontari's injured so I can't send her, and then it would be Octavia, who can't go either because she's carrying Lincoln's child who is also out for obvious reasons." Lexa explained quickly, running through the people Roan respected and who she believed to be qualified enough to handle whatever was happening in her place.

"Ok, so what about me or Clarke?" Raven asked slowly, wondering what was holding Lexa back from suggesting it herself.

Lexa closed her eyes and took a deep breath, holding it before eventually sighing and looking back at Raven, "Because I already know what has to happen. With the other two out for now, I need you and Lincoln here more than ever. And out of everyone Clarke has the best relationship with Roan."

Raven smiled sympathetically, "She'll be ok you know, she lived on her own for three months."

Laughing shortly, Lexa started walking back through the gates, nodding at the guards to have the bodies moved as they passed, "Have you heard some of her stories? The fact that she got lucky then doesn't make me feel better now."

"You just need to trust that she can take care of herself, she came off best in this fight, and she was completely on her own for the middle bit of that." Raven assured her, as Lexa focused on the door to the tower that they were steadily approaching.

"I know, and I do trust that she's perfectly capable, but the last time I trusted to that I lose the woman I loved, I couldn't go through that again. Losing Clarke would be the end of me." Lexa replied softly, stepping inside the building.

"Well you can help with that though." Raven said confidently, "Send her with a small army of guards. Back when I hated you and thought you were a bitch, it irritated me to no end how the guard you assigned to Clarke was constantly hovering at her shoulder wherever she went."

She waited until she saw the small hint of a smile from Lexa before continuing, "And really, all they need to do is get her to Azgeda, once she's there, Roan will look after her. And we've all seen him fight, you'd have to have night blood to have a fair shot at Roan."

Eventually Lexa nodded, "Fine, you make a good point, I'll tell Clarke tonight, and then tomorrow she'll have to ride out for Azgeda. I just wish she didn't have to go, I hate when we're apart."

Raven chuckled, "Give it another couple of years, then you'll be glad of the breaks every now and then."

"Never." Lexa vowed solemnly, just as Clarke came walking around the corner towards them.