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Now Jaha was doing... something with something like the flame?] They have never shown me a city. Sometimes when I meditate or sleep, they advise me on things to come but never has there been a city. As for why natblida's, Titus says it kills those with red blood, finds them unworthy.
It is just a little blood. We must work this out first.
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The first commander created the chip and night bloods to be the only ones to possess it. How were they made? A way to combat the environment? Those left behind needed to way to survive and if Lexa still connected with them it had to be with the chip. Lexa's chip had to be the main and all the others hooked in with it. Would others see what Lexa witnessed?
The first commander must have been a scientist and created a pool of subjects. ]
If you collapse from blood loss, it won't help anything. I'm thinking about this. Can you access what you see with the flame anytime? Maybe you can ask them. They might know what jaha is doing. Who is helping him.
But sit first. You cannot move so wildly.
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I remember all I have seen... but they come to me when I meditate, or dream, as I said. [It had always been this way for her, but...] Legend says that the other Heda's, back in the time nearer to Praimfaya could talk freely with Becca and those who came before them. I have not found that to be the case.
[She purses her lips slightly.] They have opinions, though. On me. On the Coalition. On us.
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Wait, what opinions? [ her forehead scrunched up as a million different thoughts crashed through her mind. ]
Can anyone else see what you see when you meditate?
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[She pauses, then, looking at Clarke and quite certain she wants to spit something out but won't. Perhaps love was a weakness, only of a different kind than Titus or Gustus had ever meant.]
They think you distract me. [They weren't exactly wrong, but Lexa felt stronger with Clarke by her side, uplifted not broken.] That I would save you and doom myself.
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We must not be distracted now, Lexa. We have to figure out what Jaha is using and how to stop him. Azgeda is another problem. They're going to claim you weak.
[ would they demand a battle for the title? She had a sinking feeling about so much. ]
We need all the information you can get from them.
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Azgeda has always thought me weak. It is why they killed Costia, because she was mine. [But Lexa wasn't weak, she did not crumble under her own suffering but push forward harder, stronger.]
I will try to find out - but Clarke, whatever he has done now they may not know. It has been a long time since Becca. [Still, she pulls away and sits a little apart from Clarke, her steps and breath still uneven as if caught by surprise by the littlest of movements. Eventually, she closes her eyes and tries to focus.]
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Breath hitching in her throat, she tried to not think of azgeda or the thousands of other things causing issues for them. ]
Take it easy, Lexa and see of there is anything on the city of light.
[ she wished she could have a look at the chip and try to figure out how everything connected together.
She also didn't want to think about having to leave, either with or without Lexa. ]
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With a sigh, Lexa forces her mind still. She focuses not on Clarke and her unsteady, almost quietly terrified breath but on the wind outside her bedroom, on the sigh of the old stone of her tower. She lets her mind drift until Clarke's presence is a mere afterthought.
It's here, somewhere in the stillness that Lexa has always found the others. Sometimes they are clear, like standing face to face; other times they are shadows, foreboding, lurking.
Today there is only one she wants. Becca Primheda. She is the one who would know about this City of Light and Jaha's chips, if any of them would. Or maybe the second Heda might... but technology and the knowledge of it had fallen to the wayside as the mountain had stirred, as people split into warring clans and simply surviving life as it became more necessary than remembering whatever had come before the great fire.
This is where she belongs, in the quiet, in the sureness... in the grief hidden behind withdrawn expressions as she passed them. It was like a great hall, or was it a winding staircase like one that might wrap around the tower? It doesn't matter. Lexa can feel her, somewhere deep within the flame. She has no doubt Becca is there, she has heard her speak before though she is quieter than the rest.
Eventually, she finds her, the room is suddenly white. Lexa is clean, her hair flows freely over her shoulders, over garb she does not recognise and there Becca is before her once more.
There is no need for words in this place, Becca knows her every thought just as well as any of the others. And eventually, Becca begins to explain and maybe it's the chip - because gods know Lexa doesn't know most of these words or what they mean but she retains it all, or most at least. She retains that sense of what Becca is saying, what memory she drags up from the flame, old and unsteady but ever present.
Eventually, Lexa opens her eyes.]
Becca Primheda says that it is A.L.I.E., an AI she created... She says that this is how the world ended the first time. The flame, too, is an AI. Different. It does not control me, nor the world like the first got into everything to try to end humanity's suffering. [There's a sharp formalness, almost alien-quality to Lexa's tone as she tries to perfectly recite what she has been told, certain Clark will make more sense of it than she can and equally certain she never signed up for whatever an "AI" was.]
She supposes that the City of Light is some kind of Uplink, like the space in which I speak to Heda's who came before me, only without an opt out. Perhaps even without the concept of pain. An attempt to follow the original orders that were taken too literally even then. But A.L.I.E. has had a lot of time since Becca, so. [Could be wrong.]
...what is an AI?
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Letting out a sigh, she worked on fortifying the room, talking in hushed whispers with Murphy. They planned for him to sneak out and find Octavia to gather news for them. Normally, she would have suggested Bellamy but she did not know where he currently stood with everything. The issues with Pike made her question everything she once knew about her group.
He left a little before Lexa pulled out of the trance like state and began to talk. The confirmation of both devices being AIs made everything else she feared click into place. Great. As if they didn't have enough issues already to contend with. ]
An AI stands for artificial intelligence. It's something based in technology but is human like. It blends the two things together. That's what makes it so dangerous.
[ There were more things to it but she didn't want to overwhelming Lexa with information, especially when details weren't too important. ]
If there is an uplink that means there is a way to shut it down. If that's true and it takes wills away - Jaha could form an army against us. We wouldn't be able to stop the inflicted without - [ She really didn't want to finish that sentence and before she even could a banging started and lots of yelling.
There were plenty who wanted to assume the commander throne and Clarke had to wonder if that was one of the sources to the conflicts she kept hearing. ]
We can't stay here. It isn't safe and I need to get to some computer.
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Swallowing the vague wave of nausea at the thought Lexa looks at Clarke.]
Killing them. [It's the same thought that Lexa has expressed time and time again, much to Clarke's distaste but sometimes it was the way of things. Lexa pushes herself to her feet, her wound still leaks the black blood but she makes for her armour and weapons regardless. She has extras she can toss to Clarke.]
We do not have computers, Clarke, and Azgeda destroyed the mountain. [Arkadia was out of the question as well. Lexa's breath is sharp as she bends to grab something.]
Were it only that you could trade me for Becca then perhaps we might have a plan, I have no skills with the weapons you need to fight this. [That girl, Raven, she might - though Lexa had her tortured and doubted that would be overlooked. Hrm.]
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Sighing the Lexa moved again, she walked over to check the wound. ]
You need to rest until we leave here. It won't help if you pass out from blood loss!
[ She did try to help with the armor, though, nudging Lexa back to the bed. ] When you're given the flame is it in a certain room? That might help us.
[ Even the mere suggestion of losing Lexa made Clarke sick and she shook her head hard. Lexa meant everything to her, didn't she know it by now. ] You're what I need. We will figure this out together. I - love you, Lexa. Don't - plan anything reckless, please.
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Maybe it's the nausea of her whole life possibly being for nothing.]
There is a temple beneath the tower. [She says, letting Clarke back her up until her legs hit the bed. There is no time for this foolishness or worrying about her mortality, hadn't Clarke said as much herself?] It is where Titus keeps all his information, the sacred things.
[Titus who had served her for years, who told her she was unique, Titus who had tried to get her to kill Clarke and when she failed had tried to kill Clarke himself, resulting nearly in Lexa's own death.
Her hands catch at Clarke's and when she says I love you, that soft disbelief returns to her eyes, a fine tremor in her hands that has nothing to do with blood loss.]
I love you too. [She had tripped over it the day they stumbled into her bed, replacing it with something else but Clarke surely knew what she meant. Still, the brush with death makes her want to say it clearly now, at least once.]
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Nodding about the temple, her eyes lingered on Lexa's neck, wondering about the objective with the city of lights. Did Alie just want to take over people? What could be the end result for her? ]
What I need will probably be there. If -
[ The returned words stalled anything else she might have said and carefully surging forward, she pressed a kiss to Lexa's lips. ]
I'm going to help you get this armor on just in -- then I'm going to the temple to see what I can find. You stay here, rest and I'll come back for you. Then we'll get out of here together, okay?
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She raises a brow at Clarke, wondering if she would even know what to find.]
I could go down just as easily as you, it is not stairs after all. [She reminds Clarke, though considering who has been bedridden and who hasn't, it's likely Clarke has been up and down the tower more than she has in days.] Do what you must, but if you are gone for long I will come find you even if I have to climb down.
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No. Lexa would have to know something and plenty of secret passageways.
Finally, after what seemed like so long, she entered into the temple, finding it oddly vacant. It unnerved her but she quickly moved around, trying to find any clues and she did she ever. The thirteenth station rested before her very eyes, her breath catching in her throat.
It meant things were established since the beginning and it gave her confirmation on nightbloods being scientific in nature.
Grabbing a few things, she rushed back to Lexa. ]
We need to go. Now.
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Did you find what you were looking for? [She rises to her feet, still unsteady but willing herself past it.]
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They had Pike to worry about, the chips and the uprising for a new Commander. Lexa hadn't died, of course, but they would see the wound as a weakness. ]
I did. We can talk more later. I'm going to get us somewhere safe, okay?
[ Gathering the things from Lexa's arms, she wrapped an arm around her to try and ease them slowly out and away from the tower. ]
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Yet she knows she could be killed easily in any fight, and had she not nearly died from a betrayal from within her closest circle of trust?
So she straightens herself up, takes one last regretful look at her room and moves over to Clarke, letting her lead them out.]
I know a place.
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Between her people, the grounders and the city of light they had their work cut out for them. ]
Okay, tell me where to go.
[ She tried to give an encouraging look, grabbing onto Lexa as they crept out of the room and towards the new destination. ]
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The place she had in mind had involved some very discrete weaving out of the city and back towards trigeda land but curving far away from Arcadia, the mountain and even her own clan. It's a small cave, and then deeper in a little door she moves to slide though, holding her breath and fighting dizziness as she does. Inside it's not quite a bunker, perhaps a strange cabin for a long dead hermit, or something built from spare parts by those who came later. But there's a bed, some seats, and a whole lot of old books. A frosted window lets in some sunlight, though it is mostly overgrown.]
Anya and I used to stay here sometimes. No one else knows of it.' and Anya was dead, so there was no one. 'There is good hunting out this way, we will not starve, either.
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Sit down. [ She left little room for arguing, flat out ignoring everything else as she grabbed for her kit to patch Lexa back up. Again. ]
You're going to lay down and sleep while I try to see if I can get in contact with anyone with the walkie. It probably won't work but it's worth a shot.
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[She sits without arguing, settles for what might pass as comfortably as Clarke fusses with her wound.]
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I need to connect with the city of lights and see if I can work this out. Before it makes the alliances worse.
[ Looking towards the entrance, she nodded again. ]
I need a chip and that means letting myself get captured. I know they want me taken in at Arkadia.
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Who have they given the chips too? [Chip is such a strange and cold word for something that is supposedly like the flame in her neck.]
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