From ashes to ashes•

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Clarke and Lexa watch the ashes among the final tree limbs emit shimmering heat waves into the air. The space between them is small, but defined. Clarke's eyes are glassy as the warmth from Finn's pyre laps against her skin.

His bones were burned with those he'd slaughtered

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His bones were burned with those he'd slaughtered. Slaughtered in her name. She blinks back the stinging, but no tears fall.
Lexa's own eyes are fixed on the ashes of her murdered people, but she has other deaths on her mind.

"I lost people special to me too

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"I lost people special to me too." Clarke doesn't reply or look away from the site, but she listens. Lexa doesn't know why she feels the need to comfort this girl, but does her best anyway. Even if it meant talking about... them.
"The first was a girl I grew up with. Costia." At this, Clarke looks over at the Commander standing stiffly at her shoulder. The brunette warrior speaks evenly, as if reciting from a book.
"I ascended as Commander when we were 16. Costia was always by my side, and she made bearing the burdens of a warring people lighter. By 17, she was dead." Lexa's composure falters, and she struggles to keep her voice steady.
"She was captured by the Ice Nation, whose Queen believed she knew my secrets." Clarke swallows. She knows how stories like this end.

"Because she was mine

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"Because she was mine..." Lexa's gaze goes stoney as she pauses.
"They tortured her," Clarke looks to Lexa.
"Killed her. Cut off her head." The brunette stares straight ahead, but if one were to look into them, pain would be saturating her green eyes.

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