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Blurs passed, the forest is deathly silent. The only sound horses harsh breathing and their hooves. Not a single thing moved, for fear of being spotted. On top of the horses is people called the Woods Clan. Each and every one of them were dressed for war. Swords, spears, bows and arrows were strapped on them. they had a blank expression, scars were everywhere on their bodies. Each was tall, lean, and muscular like warriors. That's exactly what they were. Warriors. The horses came to a stop in front of a giant cement building. The only thing that make the building look like someone was living in it was a single torch that hung on the wall right next to the door. There were no windows to see in the building, so all in all it looked like a giant cement brick. A female warrior mounted off a horse, followed by the rest. The female warrior then walked in front of everyone and became planked by the them, all were tense and ready like they were daring anything to come and try and attack this warrior.
"Commander how many should come in with you?" A female warrior of the Woods Clan asked. She was tall with dark tan skin and talked with respect in her eyes and voice. She was dressed with leather armor that blended into the forest around them. Swords hung on each side of her hip, her right hand rested on one.
"Only you Indra." The Commander replied without any hint of emotion in her voice. She too was dressed with the same armor and weapon, but the sword was slung onto her back. She looked young, on older then nineteen. She was stunning. The paint though, that covered the top half of her lightly tanned face made her look older and wiser. Her dark brown hair was put into long intricate braids like the rest of her people. Sharp green eyes scanned the building to search for any signs of danger to her and her people.
Suddenly the door to the building in front of them was swung open, revealing a man in his late twenties. His brown hair was slicked back and looked oily. His brown eyes had an almost insane look in them, like it has too much in an average lifetime. He wore a black dress suit that was a size to small.
"Ah...Sorry for the wait Commander Lexa, some of the merchandise wouldn't comply." The man said while giving a deep bow, a sinister smile played on his lips.
The Commander now known as Lexa snapped, "It better not happen again Cage. My people and I have traveled far to come here and you are late for it."
"Of course." Was the quick reply. "Would you like to come inside and see what we have for you?"
The Commander nodded, Lexa and Indra followed the man inside the building. While the rest stayed outside to guard the building.
Once inside, the building on the inside is completely different then the outside. There was a crystal chandelier on the roof and soft brown leather couches were placed next to the walls. Lexa and her companion sat on the closest on to the exit. The floor, make of clean, shiny, white tile made every footstep echo around the room.
"Sit and relax, I will bring out the best we have to offer and see if you want any." The not completely sane man, Cage, said in an almost to cheerful to be ok manner. Once the man walked out of the room, Indra asked, "How many people should we buy?"
"As many as possible that are healthy and are able to fight and hunt." Replied Lexa gruffly.
In the farthest wall of the room to the door was words that read, "Slaves, Warriors, and all your kinds of people needs. (All were born and breed here.'"
Cage came back with a girl being pulled behind him. The girl's hands and feet were tied and a rope that was being pulled by Cage was tied to a rope around her neck. She stood straight with blue eyes that shined with excitement and defiance. She was pretty with long brown hair that was pulled into a braid. There were scars that ran up her arms and legs into her shirt and pants. She had muscles and body of a warrior, lean and strong.
"This is Octavia, she is a great fighter and hunter, knows your language but is a little troublesome. She was born with everyone else here and was trained to be a warrior, just like her brother." Cage said while tying the rope attached to Octavia to the wall next to him that had hooks sticking out of them.
"So you can speak my peoples language girl?" Indra almost sneered at the girl.
"Yes." The girl replied simply while staring straight at Indra and lifted her head up a little to show that she wasn't afraid.
They stared at one another before they both nodded to each other to show that they respected each other. Lexa and Indra proposed after talking to each other that Octavia will be bought by them and become a Woods Clan warrior and Indra's second.
After being shown over 25 people, Lexa was pleased that her Clan was getting five new warriors with the names of Octavia, her older brother Belamy, Jasper, Monty, and a girl named Raven. All of them were good at hunting while Octavia and Belamy were the fighters, Jasper was a weapons maker. Monty was a wonderful plant expert and knew which to use when needed to, and Raven is great at fixing anything that needed fixing like tools, and houses. When they were about to leave Cage called to them.
"Wait! I have on more girl to show you, she is quite odd." Cage said while stil looking at and counting the gold pieces that Lexa gave to him as payment for her new people."Found her sleeping in a tree, she looked like she was alone so we caught her and put her in with the rest of the people we have. Since everyone knew everyone else in the building, they did not take well to having a girl from outside the building to become one of them. They stayed away from her and she stayed away from them. Since she was a loner we put her in her own room, and found out she is a great artist when we saw her walls with drawings of the outside made by charcoal she found. She is interesting and we've only had her for two months now." The way he talked about this girl intrigued Lexa and Indra. He spoke of this girl like she was a frustrating puzzle that cannot be solved, but still loves to try and solve it.
"That's not even half of what we found out about her but the main things are, she's the best healer I've ever seen, and...She Doesn't talk."
"What do you mean she DOESN'T talk, does that mean she could if she wanted to? And how do you know?" Lexa asked her face has no expression other then her scrunched up eyebrows and the curiosity in her eyes.
"Yes she could talk if she wanted to but doesn't want too, and we know because she would only talk to this boy named Finn before he was killed during a trade gone wrong. After his death was found out, she didn't cry or mourn or anything. She just stopped talking to anyone altogether since he was the only one she really only talked or did anything with." Cage's voice was grave like he too seemed sad. "Such a shame too, her voice was beautiful, she could say something that wasn't really important and everyone still clung onto her voice like it was the only water miles away in a desert." While he said this, the new people of the Woods Clan nodded and gave small murmurs of agreement.
"We want to see her." The Commander said in a stern voice filled with curiosity. Cage nodded and left without another word. Couple minutes later, he came back with a beautiful girl tied up like how Octavia was. Her clothes were different though. instead of a black sleeveless shirt and brown shorts like the rest, she wore armor like the people of the Tree Clan. With the armor on they couldn't tell if she was built like a warrior, but her face proved otherwise. Blond hair that was put into multiple braids looked like there wasn't a hair out of place and looked good on her. She had sun-kissed skin unlike how pale the other people who were bought looked (Since they never went outside other than Octavia and Belamy to learn how to fight and hunt). Her face was blank and looked like she never had any other face then that. Her eye were a beautiful blue that blew all the other blue eyes out of the water. What everyone thought was frightening though was that her eyes held no emotion, she stood tall with an air around her that made you want to follow her and be her loyal protector or as long as you live. While her body was straight and she emitted confidence, her eyes stayed on the ground.
Lexa was stunned by this girl, this girl just walked in and already has everyone's complete attention. Just who is she?! Lexa had to resist the urge to go up to the girl and do something she might or might not regret.
"Who is she?" Lexa asked after she shook her head and cleared her throat, which brought everyone out of the girls trance.
Cage smiled a smile that no one ever saw on him, "Everyone ... This is Clarke."