Our People (the Third Book of the Her Weakness series)

Chapter 115

Clarke's POV

After Raven gets on Octavia's shoulders and they make it a few yards towards land, the rest of us get in. Lexa's scowling the whole time we're in the deeper water, not happy that her swords are in the water.

"If after we kill them I notice that this rusted my swords, I will bring them back just to kill them again." Lexa vows.

I manage a smile at that, amused by my girlfriend's dramatics. We continue wading towards the cave ahead. They were right, the current is pretty strong but luckily, we're all stronger.

As we get to shallower waters near the cave, I frown at the feeling of my pants sticking to my legs. It's not very comfortable.

We stay close to the left edge of the cave's entrance as we near it. We're all wearing dark clothing so we kind of blend in. Lexa takes my hand, not holding on tight in case we suddenly need to use our hand to fight. We move forward, a silent sigh of relief going through all of us when our shoes touch dry land.

This part of the cave is horse shoe shaped, with a few yards of land along the sides and a lot more in the back where there's smaller tunnels leading off to different areas. In the water, there are a few smaller rowboats with metal bottoms and two larger boats the size of a small ship. I have to say, the metal bottoms are a pretty smart idea with the sharp rocks out there.

We stay back when we see movement up ahead where there's more land. There's two cracks in the wall that are close to each other and can fit us all if we squish. I whisper out my idea and within seconds, aside from Raven, we're all crammed in them.

Raven crouches and gives us a two finger salute before heading down towards the back of the cave. I can feel the worry radiating off of Octavia, so I reach out and squeeze her hand as we watch her girlfriend.

Raven tucks and rolls dramatically like a spy in an Old Earth movie, moving from one small piece of cover to the next. I'm surprised that the pirates haven't noticed her yet. She finds pretty good cover behind a rock jutting out of the wall, closer than I would like to the people.

Raven peeks over at the pirates, carefully setting down Boomy beside her. She uses hand motions that the guards, octavia, Lexa and I all know in case of an emergency or something like this. There's six people, two are leaving, the remaining four are guards. Raven glances back at me and I give her thumbs up to tell her I got what she was telling us, then give her another motion to tell her to wait until the two are gone.

Raven nods and peeks over again. I quietly relay to the others what she signed in case they didn't see it. When I look at her again, she's looking at me. She signs 'all clear'. I sign back 'you're sure?' Raven nods so I give her the go ahead.

"She's going." I murmur and Octavia's hand tightens around mine.

Raven unclips the controller from her side and flips off the safety and turns it on. She waits a few moments before making Boomy move. He walks quieter than I remember, I can't even hear him from here. He marches out from behind the rock, the guards apparently not noticing his tiny body at first.

"Chit daun bilaik (What is that)?" I hear a guard ask.

"Tek (technology)," another says. "Oso na bilaik klir skai, klir woda (we'll be set for life)."

I can see Raven's smirk from here. She presses the big red button and turns a few levers. There's a meep an then all is silent. Raven turns to us with a wide smile and gives us thumbs up, gesturing for us to come up her.

'Is it safe?' I sign.

Raven nods so I get out of the crack in the wall first. The others follow my lead and we head to Raven, who's beaming like a proud mother at Boomy. She scoops him up from the ground where he's standing in front of four large bodies.

"Did he kill them?" I ask, nudging one of them with my foot.

"Yeah. It was pretty awesome. I managed to get all of them before any of them could call for help. Are we going to need Boomy again?"

"Maybe. I do not know." Lexa responds.

"Alright, I'll put him away for now."

Raven puts him in this sack on her back that allows his face to peek out, looking at me.

"You turned him off, right?" I ask.

"Of course," Raven says unconvincingly as she flips two levers.

I roll my eyes and them turn my attention back to Boomy. "Did you seriously make a baby carrier for your robot?"

"Hey, he's not jut a robot. He is my baby." Raven retorts.

"Shh," Octavia shushes Raven and then kisses her. "We have to figure out a plan."

"We should stay together. We do not know how many there are of them." Lexa says.

I nod, "Then let's go down the first tunnel. Or we could stay here, set up a trap."

"No need for traps, I brought enough bombs to take this place down." Raven says cheerfully.

"Be careful with those," I warn. "If you cause a cave in and we get trapped, I'll kill you."

Raven gives me her two finger salute. "Yes ma'am. I'll be careful, don't worry. I have a lot of stun grenades. And a pretty cool taser I fixed up. Plus my guns. And I'm not talking about my amazing arms."

"Try to keep the grenades to a minimum unless we need them, okay?"

"I will," Raven promises. She's not often serious like this, so I know she'll do what I asked.

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