We’ll Give You One More Fight
While Echo waits for the conclave to begin, in the weapons room with Roan, she finds herself walking over to Luna.
The last nightblood, who fights for death.
In this, she finds understanding she never expected
Echo Positivity Week Day 5 - A Character She has Never Interacted With Before (Luna, before the conclave, 4x10)
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The air was frigid, as each clan’s warrior stood in the weapons room, quietly selecting the weapon they thought would best keep them alive to save their clan. They each had someone, an advisor, a friend, a family member, standing near them, rubbing their shoulders and giving them advice. Bellamy and Kane stood off in a corner with Octavia, talking in hushed, angry whispers.
Echo stood near Roan, taking in the room.
The only champion with no one was Luna.
Roan was picking through the weapons in front of him, paying her no mind, so she walked over towards the last living night blood.
“You walk quietly, azloufa.”
She didn’t respond, just watching the natblida prepare.
“Why do you fight for death?” She finally asked. “Why fight at all, if this is your cause? There is no honour in this.”
“What do I care of honour. There is no one to prove myself too. I spent my whole life avoiding violence, and look what I earned for it. My clan. Dead. My body, used stolen from by skaikru like I was some resource to be tapped. The earth was destroyed by humanity, and now those same people, from lifetimes ago, are causing it to end again. And what do we do, in the face of certain death? In the face of the end of the world? We fight. We fight to leave others out in the fire, because we value ourselves the most.”
“But shouldn’t at least some people get to live?”
“Why does the person who kills the most warriors deserve to be the one who lives? The person who causes the most death, who causes the most pain, who determines the death of thousands of others, get the honour of living?”
She settled in next to her on the bench, and Luna sharpened the knives in her hands.
“So why not fight for everyone? Why not fight to share the bunker?”
“Because why would I fight to save people, when people are the problem?”
“Maybe giving humanity another chance will help us want to be better?”
“Do you actually believe that, as we stand here and watch 13 people prepare to fight to the death for this?”
Echo looked around the room. She watched as trikru’s warrior stood sharpening his blade. She watched as Roan swung his sword around. She watched as Octavia stood close to her brother, listening to him try and help her win.
“I guess not.”