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@damnbrain​ | RAVEN & ECHO S7

her mind was fast to sink back into habits, trained responses of isolating pain and betrayal and shutting off the potential fallout of her emotions having the chance to betray her too. bellamy was dead; her eyes would wince on the thought, the fact, and then she would think it again, repeat it again. less of a wince each time, less of a clenching in her chest. repeat the fact again...bellamy was dead, force it to hurt less and less each time, an hour of this before echo accepted how hard it was to grieve someone who wasn’t...that same someone they had been before. 

not anymore, and now...that stranger was gone. so was the family member. so was the lover.

an hour, before echo pulled her eyes away from the spot she had chosen on the walls of the holding room, before her eyes looked to raven sitting on the end of her own bed, just as quiet and motionless and no doubt waring inside of her own head. echo stood quietly and grabbed at the end of her mattress to drag it in closer to raven’s until they touched, and then she sat herself right back down, but beside raven now, and silently wrapped her arm around the woman’s smaller frame.

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@reycs​ said:  "to tall people we short ones still look human so we are probably creepy fetuses crawling among them while they scream ‘’ANOTHER ESCAPED THE WOMB!'" || raven to echo

once the mental image was placed it couldn’t be unseen. she sunk right down to sit in a chair of the ring’s mess-hall beside raven, considering it point taken that she had been standing and thus towering over her. “i don’t think i can unsee that in the five minutes remaining before we eat.” she mutters out, leaning back to rest her elbows on the table behind her, her eyes finding raven. “very effective of you.”

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@reivcn​

she was working on one of the cars in her uncle’s place when she heard a familiar voice. there was a smirk on her face as she was resting underneath the car, before pushing herself out, she let a serious look appear on her face, a gentle shrug of her shoulders as she looked over at echo standing there. “did the lemon tree tell you that?” she asks, before she was grabbing the rag from her pocket to wipe the grease off of her hands. “sorry i didn’t tell you. i knew i was forgetting to tell someone.” to be fair, she hadn’t even told anyone. “luna gush about it, huh?” there was an adoring smile upon her face, just picturing how happy her fiancee would of been that she would of told everyone that they were engaged.

raven was sliding out from under the car and she helped her a bit by putting her boot on the edge of the roller to speed that along, and then she crouched down beside her. “i don’t like lemons.” she pecked the side of her friend’s head and sunk lower to sit on the floor beside her, hands picking up the tools. “wait you are?” her tone might have sounded surprised but she was playing mostly. "i heard from bellamy, who heard from lincoln, who heard from aspen who heard from luna. i don’t know how but it got around.” she decides to answer with that. her smile was just as happy seeing raven’s smile; they likely all expected this to happen even sooner than it had. “actually i just heard you muttering in your sleep that’s why you woke up with luna this morning.” because echo heard raven muttering on the couch so she texted luna to come get her and she had, while echo cleaned up last night around the shop luna turned up to pick raven up into her arms and she carried her to bed for the night. “i’m not....wearing a dress. i will will.” she was so happy for her and it showed in her smile, through her eyes. “tell me all about it, how did that happen?” she wanted to hear about it, she still passed her a wrench that was sitting nearby because she figured she was still working on the car.

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@reivcn continued from im too lazy to get the link even though it’s in another open tab.

“considering you’re the one up here that fucks me. are you suggesting you’ll be doing the honors here, echo?”

“you know that’s not the way you’d have it if you had the choice.” echo quips back, a small smirk biting at her lips. she had her boots up on the edge of the table in the dining area, canteen or whatever monty trying to doll it up as. it was a few tables and a cluster of chairs, but her head lulled back to look at raven across the room. “is there someone else in line ahead of me, space girl?”

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@reivcn

it had taken her gps a dozen tries at reconnecting before she just gave up on her phone all together and tossed it to the brown leather seat of her car. instead of relying on it to follow the directions raven had given her, she pulled over once she was in the area and took to walking along the roadside where shops were lines, on the other side of them, small glimpses of the sea. it was around here somewhere. “reyes.” she only called out when she saw the familiar sign of the shop raven had texted to her that morning, and she ducked inside the open garage door. at least she wasn’t far off, from where she’d parked.

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radio silence

@reivcn -continued from here.

she was just looking out into the vast void of nothing when she felt someone pinning her to a wall. she wasn’t seeing anything, she didn’t even know that it was echo that had come out of nowhere to pin her against a wall. it was like slow motion how her eyes turned away from the window to look at echo that was holding her. “let go of me.” she begs of her. she hadn’t heard from luna in a week something had to have happened, there was no more communication, there was nothing from luna, nothing coming through the radio. it had her eyes burning as she looked to echo, trying to push her off of herself. “let me go.” she tells her, pushing her with everything she had in her. even though they had been training, echo was still stronger than her. “i need to get to her, let me go.” she was screaming now, pushing harder, her eyes burning as she tried to get echo off of her, tried to push for that hatch to get out, to get to luna, to find her, just to be with her. “please, let me go.”

she had watched her uncomfortably for too long, never wanting to assume what was on raven’s mind. echo still knew her enough to know what was, she could see it raging in her mind as raven paced, as she allowed panic to spread, as she battled her way through a decision she was trying to make that had no safe outcome for her. the moment raven moved for the hatch echo moved for her, pinning her against the wall. part of her hoped she’d only hear a question of what she was doing but instead, what she heard from raven only proved what echo fears. “no.” she wrapped her arms around raven’s smaller frame, pulling her off the wall and even further from the hatch of the ring, even against her struggle, against how strong raven was, echo was stronger and she pulled her away. her screams cut through her and she only held her tighter, keeping raven’s back to the direction of the door so that it was out of her sight. “raven, no.” it wasn’t said so loudly, but it was firm, a denial of what raven wanted. “i’ve been there. you’re not going to be there.” she held her tighter still. “raven listen to me.” echo managed to get her tight enough in her hold to limit her fight, to bring her lips to her ear. “not like this. she’s not waiting for you where you think she is right now. so not like this.”

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@aresborrn

the spy’s eyes were wary on murphy. she’d been telling him for weeks that she would teach him with a bow, and echo had also been skirting around to find time, or something else to do. it wasn’t personal, but it was placing something she prized in someone else’s hands. after a few hours of being hunkered down in a cave in the valley, while the others around them were sleeping, echo realized there was..nothing else to do. concession was in her eyes as she finally pulled herself up from the ground where she’d been leaning into the rock wall, boots scuffing a little at loose dust and dirt as she came to a stop in front of him and slid her quiver of arrows from her shoulder to hold it out to him. “unless you want to lazy around like the rest of them are.” it had been raining outside the caves; their reason for hiding out, but it had slowed and as long as they went out opposite of the village they should be fine.