Chapter 6
That evening when the Commander had returned and washed up and changed, Tanwen told her what they'd found out in the medical book.
"Are your people in danger?"
"Yes. If they figure out that the kids' bone marrow could let them walk the ground without suits, they'll drain the kids. They may release your people or they may just kill them once they no longer need them."
"We need to get in there sooner," Lexa said, rubbing her head. Tanwen went to her and pushed her into the chair and stood behind her, gently massaging her temples.
"Let it go for tonight, Lexa, we'll find it." Lexa pulled one of Tanwen's hands to her mouth and kissed it.
"What did I do to deserve you?"
"You didn't kill us," Tanwen said with a smile. Lexa chuckled.
"Best mistake I ever made," she said.
"Mistake?"
"Indra said I should have just killed you all, that it was a mistake to keep you alive." Tanwen nodded.
"Come on, Lexa, let's go to bed. Tomorrow we need to find a way in and plan around that." Lexa nodded and they made their way to bed though it was some time before either fell asleep.
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The next morning, Clarke was invited to speak about the bone marrow and what it meant for both the former Skaikru and the clans.
"With our bone marrow they can walk above the ground without a suit, but it means they'll kill my people to get it. Like taking your people's blood, more than one donation can be taken. I'd guess maybe 8 or 9 times. With 47 of my people still in there, they'd need to kill everyone to get it all for everyone in the mountain. Getting your people out would be easy, they'd probably let them go - if you leave my people behind. They won't need yours anymore."
"That won't happen! The Commander said firmly. "Your people are now Trikru so if they try to make that deal, I'll take it and insist on ALL of my people being set free, otherwise we attack!" Tanwen smiled.
"Good, and with that, we think we have a way in, but we need to check it out first," Tanwen said, getting up and moving over to the maps and bringing them back to show her wife.
"Anya said that she saw this area when she was in the tunnels," Tanwen said.
"When?"
"When she escaped with me," Clarke said.
"Did she see a door?"
"No, but those tunnels are dark and she was looking for a way out AND trying to evade reapers." The Commander nodded.
"Those reapers will be the problem," the Commander said.
"Yes, but when the maunon were chasing after me in the tunnels, they used some kind of sonic emitter to make the reapers back off. If Raven can make some, we could use them to make the reapers back off. If we can knock the reapers out, maybe we can return them to your people once more."
"That would take away another source of people from the maunon though, wouldn't that put our people in more danger?" Tanwen asked.
"Maybe, but we need to start somewhere and finding that door is more important." Tanwen nodded.
"Who's going?"
"Neither of you are going. Tanwen's my wife and you are the Chief of your village. I'll ask Anya to lead some warriors once Raven's made some of those sound machines," the Commander said, firmly. Both of them nodded.
"I'll agree with that, but when we actually assault the mountain, I'm going," Tanwen said. "Those are my friends in there, Lexa. You can't ask me to stay behind. You'd be the same way if it was your people too. In fact, you are." Lexa didn't like it but she knew Tanwen was right. Lexa gave a choppy nod, a sure sign of her displeasure.
"Can you both ask Raven to make them?" the Commander asked Tanwen. She nodded and then kissed Lexa on the cheek, trying to calm her wife down.
"We'll go now, Commander." Clarke bowed to the Commander and left with Tanwen. Lexa stayed seated on her throne, trying to find ways to keep her wife as safe as possible.
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"Hey, Raven?" Clarke called out into the building Raven and Luzzo were in, checking on the tek they'd found.
"Yeah?" Raven replied, popping her head up from the box she was searching.
"We've found some plans and we need your input. We need you to make some electronic stuff for us."
"Like what?" Raven said, wiping her hands on a rag and walking towards them. Tanwen and Clarke looked around for Luzzo. "He's gone hunting and then to the market. He'll be gone a while. What's up?"
"We found some maps of Mount Weather and we may have a way in, but it's through the reaper tunnels," Clarke said. Raven stopped wiping her hands and looked at the pair.
"And you want to enter them?"
"We need to if we want to get inside," Clarke said. "Look, when Anya and I escaped the mountain, we went out through the reaper tunnels. Anya had taken off, leaving me in the tunnels and the mountain guards found me surrounded by reapers. The guards had these sonic emitters that made the reapers back off and cower away from them. Anya came back in time to rescue me from being taken back into the mountain and we escaped. The point is that if you can make some sound emitters, we can use them to keep the reapers at bay. I want to use some tranq guns from Alpha station to knock them out. I hope we can find a way to turn them back into clanspeople otherwise we need to kill them." Raven was silent as she thought it through.
"How are you going to get close enough to go into the tunnels? I thought they had cameras everywhere?"
"They do," Clarke sighed.
"Could you make a bug detector for them?" Tanwen asked. Raven frowned.
"That's fairly easy with the components we have here, but it would have to have the range to find them quickly enough to put them out of action before the maunon got to us."
"But could you do it?" Raven thought some more.
"I could. I'll aim for a range of about 100 meters, that should do it. The sound emitters may be more difficult. What range of sound are we talking about here?"
"Very high-pitched," Clarke said, "like the shrill sound of one of those steam turbines when its vent or valve releases pressure when it builds up?" Clarke said. Raven smirked.
"You really didn't listen when your dad was explaining his job, did you?" Clarke smiled.
"It's engineering, Raven, I was always more into medicine. I think he was hoping I'd at least take an interest."
"I know, I saw you once when Jake was trying to explain something to you and your eyes just glazed over!" Raven said laughing. Tanwen joined in while Clarke blushed.
"Yeah, yeah," Clarke grumbled. "Anyway, could you make high-pitched sound emitters?"
"Hell, yes I can!" Raven said.
"Good, start as soon as you can please, the timetable's been moved up," Clarke said soberly. Raven's smile dropped.
"Why? What happened?" Tanwen looked around.
"We found out from a medical book that our bone marrow would allow the maunon to come out of their mountain without the need of radiation suits," Tanwen said. Raven was shocked and then furious.
"How soon do you need them?"
"How soon can you make them?" Raven thought.
"I'll start now and try to make at least one of each by tomorrow or the day after, depending if I can find the right materials in here."
"Good. Keep that bit about our bone marrow to yourself, Raven. Until we know more, the clans don't need to know and neither do the rest of our people." Raven nodded. She didn't like it, but at least she knew why they wanted them made and that there was a limited time in which they could strike the mountain and get their people back.
"I'm on it," Raven said, moving off to rummage through some more boxes. Tanwen and Clarke left.
"What now?" Clarke asked.
"We go study those maps once more. I want to see if there's a flaw in the design we could exploit or a way to find our people or even a way to listen in on what they are saying and doing," Tanwen replied. Clarke nodded and the two of them headed for the Commander's tent.
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Back at the tent, Tanwen and Clarke entered and went to the maps. Lexa entered from their bedroom.
"Hey, Lex, Clarke and I are going to study the maps some more to see if there is a weakness we can use." Lexa nodded.
"I don't like that you are putting yourself in danger, but I guess you don't like it when I do either."
"No, I don't but I know you won't take unnecessary risks, plus you have your bodyguards there for protection."
"I know and so do you. Please, don't get killed, I don't think I could live through that," Lexa whispered to Tanwen. Clarke stepped outside while they had a private moment.
"I need to be there for my people, Lexa, just like you will be there for them as well. They are Trikru now but they don't know that yet. Seeing me there should help them. Remember, the last time they faced the Trikru, they were the enemy. I need to be there for them and help them transition to being Trikru."
"I understand. I still don't like it, but I do understand."
"Good. With that being said, don't you dare die on me either! I want a lifetime with you, not a few months!" Lexa smiled.
"Sha, hodness, that is what I want as well." They both stood there for a few minutes, hugging each other and soaking up the other's strength to see them through the day. Once they stepped back, they became Commander and Queen of the Trikru once more.
"I have to go and make sure our warriors are not bashing people's heads in to prove they are the stronger clan!" Lexa said. Tanwen smiled.
"And I'm going to look over the plans to find their weakness and exploit it!" They kissed before Lexa left the tent.
"Is it safe to come back in?" Clarke said as she popped her head through the tent flaps.
"Yeah, come on in, let's figure out how to take that mountain down and get our people back, all of them!" Clarke smiled and they pulled up chairs to the table and spread the maps out.
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"Look at this!" Tanwen said, after several hours pouring over them.
"What?" Clarke said, rubbing her eyes which were tired from staring at the plans.
"This looks like a normal ventilation shaft that lets the bad air out of the mountain, but look here, there's a small gap between the junction and the wall. I'd guess it was badly welded and over the years, it corroded away. I'd think a small amount of radiation leaks through there."
"Wouldn't they have just welded it back together?"
"Maybe, but why put it on the plans if it's supposed to be sealed?"
"If it lets the radiation in, why would they leave it like that?" Clarke countered. Tanwen thought about it.
"No, remember, when this was originally built, it was not a survival bunker, but a place people worked and then went home each night and morning. It's called Mount Weather because that is what it does. It checks the weather."
"But it's military?" Clarke said, frowning in her confusion.
"Yes, but I think this was the place where the military got all its weather information from all around the world, especially for military operations. It may be military, but it's low level military. A workplace, not a living place."
"So the original plans were not for a survival bunker so it didn't matter if that bit was plugged up or not," Clarke reasoned out.
"Yeah. Maybe originally it wasn't an outtake vent but an intake vent. When they redesigned it for survival, they just made it an outtake vent instead, forgetting about the flaw."
"How does that help us?"
"Don't know yet, but it may be a way to deal with them." Tanwen had a nasty thought.
"Clarke, when you and Bellamy went to that arms bunker, were there any grenade launchers there or anything like that?"
"I don't know. We were looking for the guns and ammo." Tanwen nodded.
"Well, no matter what we do, we need to find a way to get our people out. Those doors in the reaper tunnels may be the way in, but we need to deal with the reapers first and that's going to take time even if we just tranq them all and carry on into the mountain, it'll still take time." Clarke nodded and then yawned.
"I guess we'd better get some food," Clarke said. "We've been in here ages." Tanwen nodded, still thinking of finding a grenade launcher and using it to blow a hole into that vent. The mountain may have been built to withstand a nuclear war, but that flaw gave her the idea that it may not have been built to withstand a much smaller missile.
Stepping outside, Clarke saw Anya on guard outside the tent.
"Come on Anya, I'm hungry. Let's go to that stall we were at the other day. Those meat skewered things were delicious!" Anya and Clarke walked off. Tanwen watched them go.
"Ingrid, with me," she said as she walked off towards Clarke's tent. "Kane!" Tanwen said, raising her voice. Kane came out of his tent.
"Yes?" he asked.
"When you told Clarke and Bellamy where to find that bunker they got the guns from, was there an inventory of what was supposed to be there?"
"A partial one, why?"
"Was there any mention of grenades or rocket launchers?" Tanwen asked, ignoring Kane's query.
"There were. Why do you want to know?"
"Because I do," Tanwen said. Ingrid stepped up.
"As queen of the Trikru, she does not need to explain herself to you!" she said. Kane bristled but knew she was right. Tanwen outranked him and anyone else born on the Ark.
"Did you get those launchers when you went for more stock?" Tanwen asked.
"No, there were a couple of launchers and a few projectiles, but we didn't need them so we left them there along with the six world war two era bazookas."
"Bazookas?" Tanwen said and then she remembered the films they watched on the Ark. "Oh, those shoulder mounted tubes they used!" she said. Kane nodded.
"Don't suppose you know the range of them?"
"No, only that it was a longer distance than throwing an actual grenade, but it was still seen as a short distance weapon."
"Meaning you'd have to get real close to your target," Tanwen said, almost to herself. Kane nodded.
"The rocket launchers would be better if you wanted more distance," he said. Tanwen absently nodded as she thought through her options.
"I think we need one," she said. "Don't say anything about this conversation to anyone, not even Clarke. This stays between us."
"Is that an order?" Kane asked.
"If it needs to be," Tanwen replied. Kane nodded.
"I think it does, my queen." Tanwen smiled.
"Then I order you, as your queen, to keep this conversation between us."
"Understood, your Majesty," Kane said, bowing to her.
"Thank you, Marcus," Tanwen said. Kane bowed again and watched as Queen Tanwen of the Trikru and the Kongeda, walked off with her ever present bodyguard in tow.
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Over the next two days, they made plans for taking the mountain. Raven was busy building bug detectors and sonic emitters. Tanwen helped her occasionally and found the mundane jobs matched her mood at times. Tanwen was worried about those in the mountain, or more specifically, those of the hundred. If the maunon ever figured out the bone marrow solution, it would mean they would all die to free the maunon from their living tomb. She really wanted to go find that rocket launcher and then blow a hole into the mountain. She knew that the maunon would die, but it was the only thing she could think of that would keep her people alive and keep those outside the mountain out of their hands. She sighed as she made another bug detector.
"How many detectors do you need?" Raven asked, coming over to her and seeing six of them already done.
"I don't know, but we need to take the cameras out all around the mountain. I don't want them knowing which area we're targetting."
"Targetting?"
"Yeah, think about it. We have to go in at one place and if they're watching us, they can intercept us. I want those cameras taken out so they have no idea where we're going to come at them from."
"What about that acid fog they release?" Raven asked.
"I have no idea. Think we could find the pipework for it?"
"Pipework?"
"I reckon that they must have a network of piping they use to release it because the Commander said it's not always released from the same place. They must have several release points."
"And what could we do with them?" Tanwen shrugged.
"I don't know, bung them up?" Raven thought about it.
"We'd have to find them and that could be tricky. It's not going to be like the cameras. There won't be enough electronics at this end of the pipework to detect. We'd be looking with our eyes and the release point would be well hidden and small." Tanwen sighed.
"I know, I was just thinking out loud. Wish we could hear what was happening inside the mountain or at least be able to find their transmission frequency."
"I know and I've been working on a radio as well. If we can find that frequency, I think I can get through their encryption. In a hundred years, they may not have changed it because the clans don't have their technology. I'm hoping they don't figure out we do." Tanwen nodded.
"Anything else you've thought of?" Tanwen asked.
"Not yet, but with the bug detectors, sound emitters and the radio, my time is fully taken up."
"I know and I'm not asking you to do anything else, I'm just looking for answers that neither of us have." Raven nodded.
"Well, I have eight sonic emitters so far. With the materials here, I think I can make another three."
"Good. Once those are made, get that radio working."
"On it," Raven said, walking back to her own workroom. Tanwen watched her go. She really needed that radio. If she can get one of the kids inside to work with them to turn off the acid fog, it would be easier to get inside. Tanwen gasped as she thought of something.
"RAVEN!" she yelled. Raven came running.
"What?" she burst out as soon as she was back in the room.
"How many spacesuits came down with Alpha?" Tanwen asked.
"About a dozen, why?" Raven asked before she caught up with why Tanwen wanted them.
"Damn, you're devious!" she said admiringly.
"Would they work against acid fog?"
"I think so. Those mountain people leave the mountain during acid fog and their suits aren't affected."
"Yeah, but spacesuits are different to radiation suits."
"True, but they are built to ward off solar radiation, any water they come across in space but not underwater so make sure no-one falls into the river with one on or they'd drown. They're also made specifically to keep out any tiny particles."
"Okay. Anyone tested out to use them other than you?"
"None that are still alive," Raven said.
"Then we'll have to find people who can wear them and walk in them."
"Yeah, even though they are a vast improvement over the ones used in the first moon walk, they are still a little bulky in atmospheric conditions."
"Any Arkers who could help with that?"
"Maybe, but I was thinking of the kids who didn't get put into prison. There are bound to be some who are willing to help us. Some may have friends in there."
"Good idea," Tanwen said before sighing. "There's so much to do and not enough time to plan it properly. We need to make certain we won't be killed by that acid fog first. Twelve suited people are not going to take the mountain alone."
"I know but look on the bright side, that acid fog obscurs their cameras as well." Tanwen sat up and smiled.
"That may be it, Raven. This needs some careful planning, but I think we can do it!"
"Damn straight we can!" Raven averred. "We're the hundred and we can do anything!" Tanwen beamed at Raven.
"Finish that radio, Raven and try to figure out how to listen to them."
"Sha, ai kwin," Raven said with a smirk. Tanwen smiled and then left Raven's workshop. She had some thinking to do.
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Ingrid and Pelana and her two male guards were up on the bluff above the harbour. Tanwen found she liked it there. The harbour belonged to the old world and was not used by the clans, but it was a place Tanwen liked to go to think. The Commander had learned about it and would make sure that a further six warriors were sent for security. Tanwen didn't mind as long as they didn't interfere with her thinking time.
Pelana walked over to her and Ingrid stood back. For some reason, Pelana had become Tanwen's sounding board. Ingrid was her confidant about most things but planning was Pelana's forte. She knew more about the Maunon than a lot of people.
"What troubles you?" Pelana asked. Tanwen looked up at her.
"It's more like what I can get away with," she admitted.
"In what way?" Pelana asked, sitting beside her. The other three guards would make sure no-one disturbed them and the six warriors would make sure no-one approached.
"Well, we have several problems. One, the acid fog. Now, the Arker camp came down with twelve usable space suits. These are not exactly like the maunon's radiation suits, but they would work in stopping the acid fog from killing them. We can wear them to counteract the fog. Second, how do we destroy the mountain? The best way would be to let the radiation in. That would kill them but leave our people alive. I've checked the plans and I think there's a flaw we can utilise IF we can get the right weapons to do so. There are weapons we can use and if we can get one and get it working, we can use it to destroy that weak point, letting the air in. Once those inside were dead, it would then be a matter of finding a way in and getting our people out."
"Sounds fairly easy so far, what's the problem?"
"Lexa's not going to let me do it, that's the problem. She'll think it's too risky even if it's the only way we could do it."
"There were only two points. Any more?"
"Yeah, how do we listen in on their conversations in the mountain? Raven's made some sonic emitters to help with the reapers and she'd made some bug detectors to find their cameras. We'll need dedicated teams, hunting those cameras and taking them out, but they'd set off the acid fog. I have thought that if they do release the fog, those in the suits could move freely through it and fire the weapon at the weak point. They cannot see through the fog any more than we can," Tanwen said.
"So you think it would be better for them to release the fog to hide you as you move closer to the mountain to fire the weapon that would kill them?"
"Just about," Tanwen said, glad that Pelana got what she wanted to do.
"You're right, the Commander would not let you do it."
"And that's the problem. If I just take off and do it, she's going to be so mad at me. I hate it when she's mad at me." Pelana smiled.
"That's because she loves you and you love her." Pelana's smile dropped.
"Would it work?" Tanwen sat forward on the stone wall she was sitting on.
"If everything goes right, yes, but I know that when you make a plan, your enemy is not going to go along with it. They will try to stop me and that's where it could get dangerous. If they capture me, they can take my marrow as well if they've figured it out."
"You look like us now, ai kwin, including the tattoo on your arm." Tanwen rubbed the tattoo under her sleeve. It was a recent addition to show who she was. She was to keep it covered until after the mountain or until she got into trouble. The tattoo was only used for people who were considered royalty. Kings and queens, but not Commanders. As there was only one other queen at the moment, showing it should get the clans to give her any assistance she needed.
"So if they catch me, they'll drain me of my blood. Nice choice!" Tanwen said sarcastically. Pelana smirked.
"You need to talk this through with the Commander, ai kwin," Pelana said quietly.
"I know, but I need to formulate my plans better first. I have no idea what would happen if it went wrong and there's always something that goes wrong. No plans have ever gone smoothly." Pelana nodded.
"I'll leave you to your thoughts," she said, bowing and then moving away. Tanwen looked back over the quiet harbour and the river heading towards the ocean.
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Back at Tondc, Tanwen knew she needed to talk it through with her wife but she also knew that Lexa would be very resistant to the plan. She sighed before she entered their tent.
"Inform the Commander that I wish to talk to her this evening," she said to Merrick. He bowed and left to deliver the message.
"Do you need to go elsewhere?" Ingrid said. Tanwen's gaze fell on the medical book.
"Only to return the book," she said. Ingrid nodded and she and Pelana walked with her as she took the book back to its rightful owner.
"Galen, thank you for the loan of your book," Tanwen said, giving him it back. Galen took it and bowed.
"If you ever need to borrow it again, just let me know," he said, bowing and then smiling.
"I will, though if one of the Skai Trikru comes here and sees it, they may decide they should look after it as it's written in their language. I will do my best to make sure they never know they are here."
"Mochof, ai kwin," he said.
"Mochof," Tanwen said, giving him a small bow of respect in return. They left and went back to the tent to await the Commander.
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"You wanted to talk to me?" Lexa said, coming into the tent.
"Yes, but I'm not sure who to talk to, my wife or my Commander," Tanwen admitted quietly.
"I am both people," Lexa said.
"Yes, but sometimes I want the advice of my wife and not of the Commander, but the Commander is always in charge of anything not related to our union. This is about a potential plan for the mountain."
"And you want my advice on it?"
"I want to talk it over with my wife before I formally tell the Commander about it." Lexa frowned.
"How? Whatever you tell me, both will know." Tanwen smiled.
"I forget how non-devious your people are with each other. When there are two people in the same body, as my wife and the Commander are both in you, on the Ark sometimes we tell our friends something we don't want the guards to know even if it's the same person. I need my wife for this before the Commander asserts herself and takes over and forbids me from doing it." Lexa worked her way through what Tanwen had said.
"I understand, but I'm not sure I can separate the two."
"Can you try?" Tanwen almost pleaded. Lexa nodded and sat next to Tanwen.
"No, can you remove your Commander's garb first? I want to talk to you, not the Commander." Lexa nodded and went to the bedroom to change into something else, leaving her sword, gearwheel and war paint behind.
"Mochof," Tanwen said, relieved to see the change in her wife. She knew it wouldn't last long, but she had her wife for now.
"What do you want to talk about?"
"I've come up with a plan but I know you won't like it and the Commander definitely won't."
"What is it?"
"I've been talking to several of my former people and have come up with a tentative plan. Right now, it's only an outline and none of the people I talked to know what I intend to do."
"Intend?"
"Maybe that was the wrong word to use. Let's just say that the plan I have in mind could end the mountain very quickly." Lexa was on alert. A way to destroy it quickly would be a good thing.
"In what way?"
"Raven's been making sonic emitters to deal with the reapers, and bug detectors to find their cameras. If we can find enough of them and destroy them, we can blind them to what is going on outside the mountain. They would likely send out that fog. For that reason, I would send groups with a tent that can keep the fog out. The teams can shelter in them to avoid it. Once the fog is released, there's a small window of opportunity to destroy the mountain. When I asked Raven how many spacesuits were in Alpha when it came down, she said 12. She figured out they were to be used to counteract the fog and not be burned by it. A group of twelve people - or a smaller group, I haven't figured that out yet - could use the fog to get near the mountain." Tanwen held up her hand when she saw Lexa open her mouth to say something.
I was looking at the plans for Mount Weather and saw a flaw in it. There is a small vent that can be used to send a much smaller missile into the mountain than they use on your people. Within a bunker there is a weapon that can send one into the mountain. If I can get it and make sure it's working, we can use it against them. I want to go and get it and then use the spacesuits to get close to the mountain under cover of acid fog to destroy them. Once the vent is destroyed, the air will rush in and kill them all, leaving our people alive. We go in after a few hours and get our people, killing anyone still alive among the maunon." Tanwen sat back and watched as Lexa thought about it.
"As your wife, it is a good plan and as your wife, I do not want you to go. I do not want you to get either captured, hurt or killed. As the Commander, I can forbid you to go. I do not want the Trikru kwin to be either captured or killed." Tanwen closed her eyes.
"I know, but it's my plan and I do not expect others to carry out something I'm not willing to do myself. I know you are the same. If you can do it, you would." Lexa nodded. She knew that she would do anything to prevent one of her people from being hurt or killed.
"This plan, when did you intend to carry it out?"
"I haven't got that far, Lexa. I'm still in the planning phase. I need that weapon, the spacesuits need to be examined and I need to find enough people to fill the suits. I'd like Bellamy to be one of them."
"I thought Clarke left him behind to run the camp in case her mother tried to take over?"
"He is, but we can send Murphy back to do that. Bellamy is the one I want by my side for this."
"Could he do it?"
"I don't know. He could fire the weapon, certainly, but could he do it knowing he is killing an entire culture? Even if we free more of our people, could he commit genocide to do it?"
"And you can?"
"Yes, if necessary. Will I be okay with it? No, but sometimes there are no right answers, just less wrong ones. Both our people are in there and at the moment, they don't know that they are Trikru so they may not want to go with your people. With Bellamy and I there, we can get all our people out."
"Just you two?"
"No, I want another ten people to wear the suits and help us. Bellamy and I will be the ones to deal with the weapon, the others will help with freeing the prisoners from the mountain." Lexa was quiet as she thought through everything her wife had just told her.
"You'd need a distraction," she said. Tanwen stared at her.
"You'll let me do it?" she whispered, almost afraid to voice it out loud.
"I need more information and a lot more planning before I say yes, but it is a good plan. We need to talk to your people about it first. Raven, Clarke and Kane at least." Tanwen nodded.
"When?"
"Tomorrow. That information about the bone marrow means we cannot wait too long to act."
"Mochof, ai houmon," Tanwen said, throwing her arms around her wife.
"When Commander Lexa finds out, she will try to find flaws in it and find ways of stopping you, but as your wife, it is a good plan." Tanwen smiled, at least she didn't say no outright. Tanwen went to the tent flaps to ask for food. Lexa's smile fell as soon as Tanwen's back was turned. She feared for her wife. It would be so simple for something to go wrong but she knew they were running out of time. She would have to be extra careful about what she said over the next few days of planning. She wanted to try to help Tanwen achieve it, but as the Trikru queen, her life was protected except from the mountain.