The Deceiver and The Disgraced

[Roma Bragg]

Roma had died . . . . that was a bit dramatic, but after being locked up for months she owned dramatic! Polis was the city of grounders--which made no sense to her, why live in trees when you clearly knew how to build cities? It was dumb! This was place was dumb! THIS CELL WAS DUMB! Roma thought back to that day. She had been speared the tree, and everything went black. Not the I had a bad dream black, but nothing black! She woke up with grounders wanting to know all sorts of information! She had talked! She didn't like violence, and with out even needing to be told there was a threat of her getting hurt, she told them everything she knew---which wasn't much! Who is your leader--depended on who you ask! What training did they have--they were kids! What was her rank . . . ook, that one got her smacked, because she started talking about social ranks and they wanted warriors!

In the end, they sent her to the city! She had been here for what felt like FOREVER! Months! That was when everything changed! They had caught another one of her people, and he was tossed into the cell to await the bald one. Roma rushed over to push the body over only to stubble backwards, "MURPHY?" She asked in shock, as the last time she had seen him had been right after his 'hanging' and right before his banishment.

Roma looked at the door as it swung shut, half ready to run at it to not be locked in here, but at the same time she was just glad to see someone she knew! Not that she would EVER admit it! Hell, she would take it too the grave, but she was glad too see him! Shocked, but grateful that it was not a random grounder they locked her in here with!

[John Murphy]

Captured by grounders, again. That he should find himself in this position after everything he'd gone through, everything he'd survived, he figured might be one of the worst predicaments he could face. If his previous experience of grounder hospitality was anything to go by. Maybe they would kill him soon enough but that was unlikely, particularly since he'd not told them anything of the pill Jaha had given him. And he wouldn't, not yet. Not until he had no choice but to spill everything he knew.

He was half conscious as his captors had thrown him into the cell, one of them having delivered a blow to his head with some weapon or other before they'd dragged him down here. He should have known he'd be caught sooner or later the more he and Emori had targeted those out on the road. It had been fun, and somewhat essential, while it had lasted. He was coming around from his dazed state as somebody pushed at him.  

Hearing his name snapped him back the rest of the way, responding with a scramble backwards until he could focus on the one who spoken it. "... Roma?" Great, this day just kept getting better and better. Still, there was a relief his cellmate happened to be another of the Arkers. He'd take an unfriendly delinquent over an unfriendly grounder. His attention shifted to the cell door and he rose to rush to it, tugging at it a few times in a pointless gesture of frustration at his imprisonment, eventually turning back to Roma with a huff. "Aren't you dead?"

Tag: Roma Bragg

[Roma Bragg]

How cute. Earth Skills. As if I will ever need to know any of that. We aren't going to Earth for another hundred years, so me learning some pointless tricks on how to make fire is only wasting my time, and I have more important people to do.

Roma

He said her name, equally shocked. Roma reached out to touch him (at this point even hugging Murphy would comfort her, and that said a lot at how far she had fallen) but he jumped up to rush the doors! Rude! "Yeah, cause I've not tried that." She muttered under her breath. She'd forgotten how annoying he was sometimes. He turned and questioned her. "They saved me, and wanted information." And she'd talked before they could hurt her. Roma talked and talked and talked. Until they decided to ignore her. She'd been in here for MONTHS!

She stood up and watched his face closely. "Wait . . . what do you mean you thought I was dead?" He had been banished before she had gone missing. How would he know she was 'dead' unless . . . "Did you go back to camp?! Does everyone think I am dead?!" She asked in a bit of a panicked tone. If they thought she was dead then no one was looking for her! Her MONTHS of waiting for help were for nothing, because no one was coming!! She was going to die here with MURPHY of all people as a house guest because no one knew she was alive!! Roma felt her breathing escalate as panic sent in. Still, there was one thing she had to know: If everyone thought she was dead . . . "Was anyone sad about it?!?!" Someone had better have been sad damn it!

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