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THE WOODS APPEARED completely and utterly empty. Climbing up onto one of the guard platforms beside Bellamy and Clarke, there was nothing that she could visibly spot hiding between the trees. Both her and Bellamy searched for anyone in the scopes of their weapons, but there was nothing.
“Where are they?” he wondered, tense at the absence of their enemy. “Why aren’t they attacking?”
“Because we’re doing exactly what they wanted us to do,” Clarke realized, her face winding up in frustration. Taylor lowered her gun and looked over to her with wide eyes, knowing exactly what she was trying to get at.
“What are you talking about?” Bellamy questioned, getting no answer as she whipped around and looked below her.
“Lincoln said the scouts …show more content…

We can’t fight them if we can’t see them. If they can pick us out in the open, they will,” she said, pointing out what she had before they left the first time. “We’re too vulnerable out there. Staying is our best chance.”
Octavia looked at her with a troubled expression, stepping forward to look at Clarke. “Clarke, we can still do this,” she tried convincing. Everyone was looking up at her expectantly, all four of them looking for a definitive answer.
“Looking to you, Princess. What’s it gonna be?” Bellamy asked, the rest of them now calmed down and looking at Clarke as well. “Run and get picked off out in the open, or stand and fight back?”
Clarke looked back at the forest for a moment and then back at her people before jumping down from the platform. Finn caught her by the arm before she could move any further past him. “Clarke, if we’re still here when Tristan gets here…” he began, trailing off slightly at the thought of whoever he had just mentioned. That left Taylor to conclude it was someone they had run into during whatever had happened when they got separated when hunting.
“Lincoln said ‘scouts’. More than one. He said, ‘get home before the scouts arrive’. Finn, they’re already here,” she finally decided, before rounding back on Bellamy. “Looks like you’ve got your fight.”
“Okay, then. This is what we’ve been preparing for. Kill them before they kill us!” Bellamy shouted to the masses. “Gunners, to your posts! Use the

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