A/N: I mostly use the italic for sentences written in English but meant to be in another language, be it Trigedasleng or Italian. And if there are no " " it's someone's thoughts.

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Chapter Fourteen: Impulsive in love

When the scouts she sent to the borders to the Blood Clan come back with an enemy, she decides to send a first warning. A bloody one.

Lexa was going over some maps, trying to figure out Tecla's plans, when a guard comes to her, informing her that the scouts didn't come back alone. They found a scout of the Blood clan who had crossed the borders and was wandering on Trikru's land.

She interrogates him, but he won't give up any information, so she decides to send a message. Avah is a fierce general, one of the best warriors Lexa has, but she's also cold as ice, indifferent to other's pain, cruel without really intending to be cruel, she just doesn't care. So Lexa lets her handle the matter and the general cuts off his tongue and his hands, she ties him to a horse and sends him back with two warriors who are to see him to the borders then let him go. Of course they are to follow silently and, when the scout will have reached a village and people will have seen his tortured and mutilated body, they are to kill him from afar with an arrow.

The general's plan has the desired outcome because it both arises fear in the hearts of the common people who witness it and it enrages the leader, for it shows that Trikru's warrior have the power to enter their lands and kill their people without anyone seeing them or stopping them.

In the days that follow the intentions of their enemies finally become more evident. Scouts report warriors arriving at the borders in small groups, settling down in camps far from one another and mostly hidden behind villages. As other warriors arrive the first troupes start to form, but there seem to be no urgency in their collecting the army. Lexa takes it as a sign that the clans are still waiting for orders from the Ice Queen. They're preparing slowly, still trying not to draw attention, still trying to keep their actions hidden, hopefully not knowing that it's useless.

Lexa has more and more meetings, both with her generals and the generals of the allied clans who stayed in Polis after their leaders left to take control of their armies. They discuss how to move and Lexa has been right in thinking that the other clans would have believed their enemies to be waiting for Tecla to launch the first attack, just what the Queen would be counting on. They argue with her, they are not easily convinced of her assumption, but she knows she's right and she eventually gets them to see it too.

Now the main problem they're faced with is how to fight the clans allied with Ice without splitting up their forces too much. The Ice Queen can't find them divided and weakened when she strikes with her army, or that will be the end of them. They have to find a way to fight back the first attacks and still be strong enough to stand against Ice's army. How do they avoid the too many losses that would bring them straight to destruction?

There is an easy answer, but Lexa is not sure it is an affordable option. The Sky People could use the Mountain's weapons to keep the clans from doing any real damage, they could defend the western lands both from the north and the south, which would allow Lexa to send more warriors to the east and fight back the enemies with very little losses at all. All of that would mean that they could still have enough forces to fight Ice's army.

The Sky People with their weapons are such a great advantage that it would probably mean certain victory. But Lexa doesn't believe they would help. Camp Jaha is far easier to protect with the Mountain's weapon than an entire clan. Tecla would be crazy to attack them, she will probably try to form an alliance with them, only attacking if they refuse. They know this and they probably won't accept to help Lexa, unfortunately Tecla must know too.

They decide to try anyway, and Lexa chooses to send Indra accompanied by Eamon, the most diplomatic of her generals, to Camp Jaha in a few days.


It's been two weeks since they separated from the others and their small group has been moving from village to village with little rest. But even if their body are tired and sore from often sleeping on the unforgiving forest ground, they're in high spirits since they found so many people ready to fight at their side.

They've had some peculiar encounters on their way, the one that most bothers Clarke is meeting a man in the second village they've entered who recognised her as the leader of the Sky People. Though what bothers Clarke is not the mere fact that he recognised her, but that he called her Wanheda. He told them he had been among the prisoners in the Mountain and, as Aeryn had been, he was grateful to Clarke for erasing the threat of the Mountain Men.

Wanheda, Commander of Death, that's how she was now called in trikru and, apparently, also other clan's lands. It's appropriate, Clarke thinks but it set her in a bad mood for the rest of the day.

Now they're approaching a village in the inside, they've come far from the borders and closer to the capital. Jivin knows someone from there and he believes they will find many to join their fight.

Nyx and Jivin are at the front, carefully leading the way, behind them Chayim and Wit are cheerfully whispering about how epic the battle against the Queen is going to be, Faith walks in the middle, shielded by all the others, continuously trying to ask Clarke questions about space and the Ark and how it was to walk the ground for the first time. The blonde sometimes answers with a funny memory from her childhood, sometimes falls silent chocking on her memories; she's opening up to the little girl a lot and Faith really seems to like her and she always seeks Clarke's company, which both surprises and warms the blonde.

Jivin and Nyx are discussing the best way to address the people of the village, Jivin totally convinced that most of the people who can fight will join them without hesitation. But when the first houses and huts come into sight something is clearly off. They don't see a soul walking around and Jivin is about to hurry forward when Nyx forces him back. She's not about to run into a desert road that screams danger from every open door. And the doors of the houses are all wide open, as if everyone had run out in a hurry and never bothered coming back. The silence gives Nyx goosebumps and she doesn't like any of what she's seeing one bit.

They carefully and quietly make their way to the road and finally enter the village. As they could see from afar, nobody is around, peering from some window Xavier says that all the houses and huts seem just as desert as the road. And then they see it. The devastation as they walk further into the village. Some things have been thrown out of houses and are smashed on the ground, small tables, chairs, various objects. Some doors are not just open, they're shattered as if someone had forced their way inside. Immediately upon seeing all the useless destruction they think about the soldiers and they wonder where the people are.

They knew that sometimes the soldiers forced people to join the army, but this is an entire village, or at least a good part of it. Why would they take all those people? And where would they take them? Because surely they didn't just kill them all. They find some bodies here and there, they're mostly young boys and girls who seem to have tried to fight back. But they don't see any other corpses around and the soldiers surely didn't take those people away just to kill them somewhere else. So the question is, what the hell happened?

They don't have to wonder for long though. As they keep walking slowly through all the mess, they start looking for survivors, someone, anyone who could have escaped the soldiers and be hidden somewhere. And they do find someone. Meike finds a little child hiding in a dark corner behind a raided house. She can't be more than five or six years old, dirt covers her face and makes her light bronze red hair look dull, light green eyes with straws of gold sparkle with rebelliousness contradicting the tears trailing down her cheeks.

Clarke and Wit take it upon themselves to talk with her and try to make her feel more at ease, safe. The girl's name is Astrid, she is terrified at first, but eventually she understands they're not soldiers and she tells them what happened.

She tells them how the soldiers came and how they were ready to fight back. She explains that the soldiers have been taking their people to make them fight in the army for weeks and that they weren't going to lose anybody this time, so they waited for the soldiers and fought as hard as they could. But they lost. The soldiers started taking hostages, they got their hands on children and old people and threatened to kill them if the others didn't surrender. They had no choice but to give in. The soldiers took everyone, they killed most of the older people and some of the children, they chose some women for themselves and took away everyone else. Astrid only knows that they took everyone to the centre of the village, where the biggest houses and buildings are, she doesn't know how many soldiers there are or where they keep the people who tried to fight back.

As Clarke and Wit stay with the little girl to reassure her that they're going to get her people back, the others start formulating a plan. Jivin wants to go check the situation right now, so that they can attack that same night, but Nyx tells him it's too dangerous and decides they will wait until nightfall. The sun is already about to set anyway so it won't be a long wait and they have to prepare themselves. They will have to free the people who can fight first or they won't stand a chance against the soldiers. There are just ten of them and someone will have to stay with Astrid, so their only chance is to take out those who guard the prisoners and free them so they can fight the other soldiers together. That is unless the fighters are with all the other people and guarded by too many soldiers.

As soon as dark comes they will go scout to be aware of what they will be facing, then, depending on how the situation is, they will attack that same night or wait for the next day.

Nyx and Wit are going to scout the area, Faith will stay behind with the child and the others will get ready to attack in case Nyx and Wit's report is positive.

After getting everything ready, while waiting for the others to come back, Clarke learns that Astrid is an orphan, she lived with an old man who saved her when her uncle was taken by the Mountain's Men. That happened two years ago, before she lived with her uncle after her parent's death when she wasn't even two years old. Her parents have been killed by the soldiers of the Queen, her mother once had been a warrior of King Kyr and she always rebelled against the Queen. Astrid has no memories of them and all she knows about her family is what the old man, who had been a friend of her father, has told her. Now he was dead too, killed by the soldiers while he covered her after telling her to run and hide.

All the sorrow of the child's life is met with a fierce fight back, all the pain in her voice while she opens up to Clarke is matched by rebellious passion. Clarke doesn't know that yet, but she won't be able to let that child be alone again. Rage towards the Queen already boils in her heart at the girl's story and she will make sure that she can't take anything more from Astrid.