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EARTH
Year 2149 CE
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She remembered an inferno, the screams of hundreds of lives perishing under the slight of a single hand, as if they were simply bloodsport. Someone called out to her, voice hoarse and desperate, as if he was burdened by a leaden cloak of grief. It stirred a portion of her heart, a side that she had hidden away for too many years and was bursting for freedom.
❝ STE YUJ, JINNI KOM SKAIKRU. ❞
She slumbered in the darkest realms of her mind, reliving the nightmares and confronting her demons all over again. The legions tormented her with fevered dreams, throwing her into an abyss of grim agony. Pain seared through the cells in her body, lacerating the crystal layers of her armour and suffocating the quintessence of her soul.
❝ YU GONPLEI STE NOU ODON. ❞
The memories came flowing through her neurons, about the boy she met in Earth Skills and the first friend she ever had. They argued about the species of dinosaurs for days, the way only children did in their days of innocence. When she met Octavia for the first time, a product of her excitement for wanting to see her best friend regarding some new invention, the little girl had answered the door by mistake as her thirteen year old brother was sound asleep. Beautiful translucent green eyes peered up at her with a kind of happiness that she could not describe.
❝ KOM MOUS OUDER. ❞
It was the trotting of hooves that woke her up, the sun glaring low in the sky and exacerbating the aching throb in her temple. Blood stained her face, streaming from the gaping wound on her head and coating her skin crimson. Her fingertips clutched against the soft fine hairs of a wolf pelt, filled with the earthen scent of musk and sweat. The boy turned back to grin at her, his crooked jaw lending him a debonair profile.
❝ EM STOMBA. ❞
She let out a relieved breath as they rode down the dirt path, her hair flowing in the lush breeze as the world passed by in a viridescent haze. The chill of the early dawn passed into a sunlit warmth, caressing her skin with compelling fortitude and renewing the strength in her bones. Soon, they pulled up to a sudden halt as imposing voices shouted harsh orders at them. She turned to the side as familiar faces emerged from the vibrant woodland, tender hands reaching out to touch her face in sheer disbelief, and she smiled with a tone of respect.
❝ COMMANDER. ❞
She was back home.
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Translations:
Ste yuj, Jinny kom Skaikru : Be strong, Jinny of the Sky People.
Yu gonplei ste nou odon : Your fight is not over.
Kom mous ouder : We're almost there.
Em stomba : She's awake.
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DISCORDIA
Fanfiction⸻ ( Bellamy Blake ) Jinny Shumway was the epitome of brilliance, the brightest star in their galaxy. But even stars can fall -- burning, crashing, incandescent. ( the 100 ) • 2020 ( editing in progress )
