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AU SCENARIOS OPEN POST !

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[skiesprincess]

[ The sight of Lexa had her heart clenching painfully in her chest and she only wanted to lay both of them down, curl carefully around Lexa to allow for her to heal but they couldn't. At least, not here.

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. ]

[hedalexa]

[More than part of Lexa wants to argue, she is the Commander, she does not run. Not from her home, her seat of power. Polis was too much to abandon, it was the jewel of her people. A sign that with prosperity they could be more.

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.

[skiesprincess]

[ Leaving pained Clarke too, even more so for Lexa's sake because she knew the difficulty in leaving all we've ever known behind. It would be seen as given up but it really meant lasting for the bigger picture. There were so many other things in store they needed to take care of and they both needed to be alive to handle them.

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. ]

[hedalexa]

[It was a long walk. Lexa tried to bear her own weight as much as she could but by the time they reached the spot she was pale. The wound had begun to weep again. She should've brought more clothes with her.

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.

[skiesprincess]

[ Forehead creased and eyebrows furrowed, Clarke tried to keep swallowing down her fretting and concern over Lexa's condition, which the long trek only made worse. By the time they arrived to the cave, Clarke could no longer hold back her concern. ]

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.

[hedalexa]

If I sleep I may not wake. But I will sit, and wait for you to try to find someone on that device - though I do not know if talking will help given what you've said.

[She sits without arguing, settles for what might pass as comfortably as Clarke fusses with her wound.]

[skiesprincess]

[ Giving a little nod of her head, she grabbed for the walkie to see if you could tap into any of the frequencies. But only static met her efforts, a groan of frustration leaving her lips. ]

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.

[hedalexa]

You cannot allow yourself to get captured. [Part of Lexa wants to use herself as an excuse - what will happen to her while Clarke is off stomping around the woods like a three-year-old child who wants to be eaten by a bear, but it goes against her nature to use her own weaknesses like that, her own failure.]

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.]

[skiesprincess]

[ She knew before she said anything, Lexa wouldn't care for the plan but they did not have other options at the moment. They were running out of time. ]

I know Raven has one. I know Jaha is controlling them somehow. It's hard to say who else might but I'm sure a lot.

[ Sighing, she put down the walkie talkie. ] They're going to pick another Commander, Lexa, they're going to claim you're dead. Pike has taken over and is murdering innocents. Whatever Jaha is doing he's controlling others. I don't know what to do!

[hedalexa]

There can be no commander without the flame. Which being that I am not dead is still in my possession.

[That didn't mean there wouldn't be a pretender - Lexa wasn't stupid. But all she needed to do was heal a little and she could fix anyone who tried. Dammit. Why had Titus done this now?!

Suddenly Lexa pales.]

The natblidas... Ontari... Even Aden may not best her. We both have to go back.

[skiesprincess]

[ The legitimacy of the flame and its importance would dim in the light of someone new having power, especially with ice nation. She never trusted the group and knew the greater violence now in store. ]

We cannot go back until you're healed and not without a plan!

[hedalexa]

Did you not wish to leave me here only moments ago? [She points out, posture stiff even as she leans back on the dusty old bed.]

If they take my absence to be a sign of my death, they will call a conclave - or try. The natblidas will all die at Ontari's hand. We need them. I do not know where to find more. [There is Luna, of course, but Luna wouldn't cooperate; she had always been stubborn and set in whatever way she decided was best. Far more so than even Lexa who Clarke often seemed to view as unmovable. There would be some in the villages, too, hidden or just unknown. There would not be many.

More importantly, they would not be hers. Not children trained to become rulers, who knew the importance of justice and fairness and the cost of ruling.]

If the flame is one of these "chips" I do not think the two are the same. [Lexa adds, after a moment.] We take natblidas because the chip kills those it finds unworthy, those with red blood.

[skiesprincess]

[ While she wanted to argue against the validity of Lexa's words, she couldn't because they were correct. She had planned to leave and use herself as bait in the efforts for more information to formulate a much larger plan. There were a lot of little things to fix, of course, but they had a greater issue at play. She just couldn't figure out how to combat it yet.

The conclave made sense but would make things even more difficult. What if it already took place and people were being swayed over? Not having a body for verification would make it difficult, though, to really move past Lexa being the rightful one.

The chip killed those without the black blood? It had to have some detection software within it then. Ingenious really but it meant scientific engineering in some way. ]

Let's give it the night and you can rest. There are ways to sleep without actually falling asleep. [ Clarke began, moving forward to try and fluff the sad looking pillows. ] If you show back up - whatever they've done will be dissolved, right? Or would you have to battle?

[ There were so many rules on the ground and she barely kept up with them all. ] As for the flame, I really need to study one of the chips Jaha has. To compare.

[hedalexa]

There is no true commander without the flame. All have borne it since Becca Primheda when she came from above. Her story is on the walls of the temple beneath my tower. [Lexa shrugged.] They cannot just decide I am not Heda without first killing me.

Dead Heda's don't walk, or talk, after all.

[And death will always be the only way out for Lexa. She would always be the Commander of the thirteen clans as long as she drew breath. If only Titus hadn't made that so much harder than it needed to be.]

You would have to carve the flame out of my neck to compare it to a chip. I didn't see it up close before my ascension.

[skiesprincess]

[ The chips would be similar but she did not want to say as much and upset Lexa over it. Finding out everything about the chips in the first place had been enough of a shock. She could handle it on her own. Instead, she gave a nod of her head, still conflicted on what to do. ]

They still need a Commander and without you there, they'll say you've died. [ Clarke responded, arms folded tightly against her chest. ] People are scared right now. Desperate. Jaha is going to use that to his advantage and so will the other nations.

[ Ice nation being their biggest issue. ] Get some rest and then we can go back. We'll see what happens but I think they'll try to kill you. If someone has taken over by the time we return .....

[hedalexa]

I have been away before, they did not stage a coup. I will not be gone long enough for them to do it now. [She says in a voice that says injury or not she has decided and unless Clarke takes her out herself, that's how it's going to be.]

We will handle Jaha. He underestimates his enemies. [He had underestimated her on sight, not a mistake he was likely to make so plainly anymore but nonetheless Lexa was sure he wouldn't even think they had a way of beginning to understand his plans. They had to work it out, and so, they would. Even if it cost her life.]

Rest with me, a while. [It's not a command, her voice is softer and almost with an edge of pleading to it.] We are both tired.