Weakness

The commander walks up to the gate and I tell the guards to open it. "We are brining Finn to TonDC where we will burn his body. It is part of our tradition. You may select a few people to bring with you." Lexa says. "Finn should be buried here where he belongs!" Kane tells her that this is the way we stop a war and she stops yelling but continues crying. "We leave at first light."

In the morning the remaining grounders come to the gate along with Lexa. I see two grounders carrying Finns body with a blanket over it. "Time to go." Lexa says. We start walking through the woods to TonDC. It takes only about an hour and a half before we get there. A camp fire area is set up. A grounder puts Finns body on the top of the fire area where it is flat. Lexa has a torch and is about to light the fire, when she holds it out to me. "Clarke." She says. She must want me to do it. As I light the fire I think about Finn. And our whole journey that led up to this point. Raven is with us and she starts crying. "I lost someone special to me too." Lexa says, loud enough so only I can hear her. "Her name was Costia. She was captured by the ice queen who believed she knew all my secrets. Because she was mine, they tortured her, killed her, and cut off her head. I was not expecting that. That sounds like it was horrific for Lexa. "I'm sorry." I say. "I thought I would never get over the pain, but I did." "How?" I ask, hoping I can somehow get over the pain of killing Finn. "By recognizing it for what it is. Weakness." "What is? Love?" She nods her head. "So what, you just stopped caring about everyone?" She nods again. "I couldn't do that." I say. "Then you put everyone you care about in danger. And you'll never get over the pain. The dead are gone, Clarke. The living are hungry." After she says this, she walks away.

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Thanks for reading this chapter!

This was pretty short, but the next chapter will be longer.

I wish we got to see a flashback of Costia in the show.

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