So you are the one
Lexa’s pov
It's been three weeks since I learned about the sky girl but I've been occupied in Polis and couldn't immediately travel to Azgeda. Now, 25 days later, I finally stand before the ice queens' palace.
All I really want is to get inside. Their summer is as cold as Trikrus' deepest winter and I am not adapted to such a temperature.
The tall doors are opened by two guards and I stride past them to the throne room.
Queen Nia is sitting on her throne when I enter the room.
„Heda. Monin kom Azgeda. Ai hope yu don a chil journey hir? (Commander. Welcome to Azgeda. I hope you had a peaceful journey here?)" I can read in her eyes that she isn't sincere but I don't care as long as she keeps up the facade.
„Sha. Ba ai laik nou hir gon formalities. Where ste skai gada? (Yes. But I am not here for formalities. Where is the sky girl?)" I have absolutely no intentions for this conversation to go on longer than it has to. After all I hate Nia with my whole heart. More than ever since she killed Costia.
„Ba kom course. Ai nou gaf in gon waste bilaik gou. Gada ste ste send gon as oso speak. Taim yu dula op nou hod daun ai na ban op yu gon yu don a chichplei raun privacy kom skai gada. (But of course. I do not want to waste your time. The girl is being send for as we speak. If you do not mind I will leave you to have a talk in privacy with the sky girl.)"
„Nou, ai nou hod daun gon ogeda. Ai laik sure yu yu don a lot gon hon daun gifa in kom. (No, I do not mind at all. I am sure you have a lot to take care of.)" With that being clarified she leaves the room and leaves me to myself.
I make my way to the throne and sit down keeping my back straight and my expression stoic as ever. The girl that fell from the sky. Soon she will walk through the doors and I will have answers to the questions bugging me since I've heard about her.
Clarke’s pov
I get woken by a hand shaking my shoulder. A groan makes its way through and I try to turn around.
„Five more minutes." I mumble keeping my eyes closed.
„No, Clarke you have to get up now. Heda arrived and wants to meet you in the throne room." The voice sounds familiar. Artis. Wait. Did I hear right? The commander of the 12 clans is here and asks to see me?
I jolt up, completely forgetting about my still hurting back and stare at Artis.
Once I've woken up I had to stay in bed for a couple days but in the last week the healer and mostly Artis helped me to walk again. The two weeks in bed on the ark and then another two unconscious made my already weak muscles completely useless and I had to work on walking for days to be able to stroll through the streets of the with snow covered town. Another problem is the temperature but I can stand it with the furs I got a few hours after I woke up. I tried to talk with a few people here but they don't seem to understand English, or Gonasleng how Artis called it, so I could only talk to some warriors who were not that hostile looking. They and of course Artis told me a bit about their culture and about the commander who I am now about to meet.
From what I've heard she is a ruthless and fierce warrior goddess who is smart and a real revolutionary. She created peace single-handedly. I am afraid of her without even meeting her.
„Here we are." Artis has been leading me to the room in which the commander is waiting for me while I was deep in my thoughts. When I make no move to take another step to the doors he crouches down in front of me.
„You don't have to be afraid. Everything will work out, okay?"
„You promise?" Of course he can't. He doesn't have any say in what will happen with me. But still he nods saying „I promise."
I hug him one last time before walking towards the doors. I really have no clue on how he did it but I find myself to like him. The guards open the doors and I walk through without knowing what awaits me on the other side.
Lexa’s pov
I didn't have to wait long before the doors to the throne room were opened once again.
A little girl walked through, a few years younger than me and trying not to show her fear but I can still see it. She has absolutely no experience with hiding her emotions. Still, I've seen worse.
Once she stands before me, she bows saying „Heda."
I don't let my face betray my surprise and keep unmoving. Nervously the girl looks up into my eyes before averting her gaze to the ground once again.
Her eyes are are incredibly blue. Like an ocean you're afraid to drown in. She has hair as blonde as I've never seen before and her skin is white as the snow laying outside.
„So you are the one who everyone is talking about."
„And you are the one who will choose if I get to see tomorrow" I have to admit I'm a little taken aback by her fast reply but as soon as her sudden confidence came it left again. She seemed ashamed and maybe if I saw it right afraid. Of me, I suppose.
„What is your name?"
Still avoiding my gaze she answers. „I'm Clarke Griffin."
„I've heard you've fallen from the sky but from what did you fall? Is there some kind of city or anything like that?"
„You could say that. I lived on a space station called the ark." The ark? Space?
„What exactly is that? Space? And what is an ark?"
She finally meets my gaze, green mixing with blue. „Space is above the sky. It is like an infinite place without any oxygen or gravity." My confusion must show on my face because she quickly elaborates. „Gravity is that force that keeps you on the ground. Without it you just fly around. And the ark is like I said a space station. It's like a city circling the earth thousands of miles above."
„But how did you survive without any oxygen?"
„Well, we have an engineering system that provides us with oxygen." All of a sudden her expression saddens and she continues. „It is failing. That's why I got send down here."
„As a scout?" Why by Becca would they send a child down here instead of an adult?
„No. My parents send me because they thought I would be floated if I stayed."
„You have water up there?" I just keep getting more confused by the minute. And why would swimming be anything bad?
„There is no water in space. Floating is when you get sucked into space where the air gets sucked out of your lungs and you suffocate to death. So floating basically is execution."
They would execute a child? How barbaric are those people?
„And they do that because..."
„Because they are going to reduce the population to buy the rest of them more time to figure out a way to safe the human race but little do they know that it already is surviving down here." Clarke smiles sarcastically.
„I think we should continue this conversation somewhere you can sit too. Your legs got injured during your crash right?"
„Yes, thanks." She smiles at me, this time more sincere and I lead the way out the room and the castle towards my tent.