/ haunted/
• showing signs of mental anguish or torment
"She was fierce. She was strong, she wasn't simple. She was crazy and sometimes she barely slept. She always had something to say. She had flaws and that was okay. And when she was down she g...
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[PREVIOUSLY: Octavia, Raven and Bryce sift through their available gunpowder, only to find out that most of it is acidic and unusable. In the meanwhile, Jasper, Bellamy and Finn return to camp with a message from the grounders: "We Will Arrange a Meeting". Octavia becomes suspicious of their response].
Unfortunately, no one else, besides me, seemed very bothered by the grounders' sudden willingness to meet up with us.
After everyone had gathered in a group just outside of the drop-ship, Bellamy showed them all the sign that he and Finn had tacked to a tree near the river at the bottom of the mountain.
"Earlier this morning, Finn and I wrote a message on this board," he shouted out. "We asked the grounders if they'd be willing to make a treaty with us or at least give us the assurance that they would not attack us. Just now, we have returned with their response: they are willing to negotiate with us and have arranged a meeting at a one hundred year old bridge that is a few miles east from here!"
A loud chorus of cheers rose up at the announcement.
Bellamy smirked as he glanced furtively around the camp. Lowering his voice, he said, "This is just the beginning. Once we receive the back-up that we need from the Ark stations, we can launch a full-scale attack that will wipe out the grounders for good."
I bit my lip and swallowed hard as I heard the news. What if I wasn't able to convince Bellamy that we pertain to the treaty conditions once the rest of the people from the Ark arrived? It was something I didn't want to even think about.
"Alright!" Bellamy called out, his strong, authoritative voice silencing the excited, energetic crowd. "Only a few of us are going to meet with them, so I need the rest of you to keep at your posts and contact us if anything drastic happens while we're gone, understood? Dustin, I'm leaving you in charge. You'll have one of Raven's walkie-talkies. I'll have the other one. Notify me if anything goes wrong, okay? Harper, you're second-in-command, keep the others in check. C'mon, move out."
Raven, who was standing next to me, nudged me in the side and smirked, "Your brother has a real effect on everyone, doesn't he?"
I nodded. "That's because people listen to him."
As soon as everyone had dispersed to go about their different duties, Bellamy headed over towards me and Raven. "Get ready," he told us as he loaded his gun. "We're leaving in ten."
When Finn, Clarke and I exited the camp by way of the front gate a few minutes later, my heart was hammering hard in my chest and my senses were on high-alert.
If anything went wrong today ... it'd be my fault.
The three of us, making as much noise as possible, followed a map that Bellamy had drawn up directing us towards the bridge. We were to divert the attention of any grounder scouts that might be lurking nearby so Raven, Monty, Jasper and Bellamy, who were all armed with guns, could slip out of the camp unnoticed. They were to trail behind us in the trees. They were to keep their distance, but be within shooting range.
