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The kids , because the littlest of them started to creep out from the relative safety of the woods Bellaht look eerily eo The boy, , arms extended to be picked up But they were still three hundred yards away, minimum The other kids followed the boy in a mad rush, all order abandoned

Bella the children toward the infire of the clearing so fast everything see but Octavia, still too far away, stuhted from the shadow of the woods Bella into his sister’s face

Run, he shouted Except that no sound ca her are froed it into her neck A few seconds later, she fell limp as a cloth doll into her captors’ arms

"No!" Bellamy screamed "Get your hands off of her; I will kill you!"

The three figures glanced up, blandly curious; then one of the between them--and the others carried his sister back into the woods

Bellarabbed hold of hirenade Get down!"

They fell beside each other on the hard ground, hands over their heads, bracing for the blast, but it was aa wall of smoke between him and the last spot he’d seen his sister He pulled up his shirt, covering his face and holding his breath as he tore through the fog, e

The invaders were gone

And so was Octavia

CHAPTER 5

Wells

Soainst his head, over and over in a slow, relentless rhythm He tried to open his eyes, but they were as heavy as sandbags and so that he didn’t want to wake up quite yet He wasn’t ready to know

The last he could reone to find Clarke, and Wells and Eric were darting in and out of the clearing, grabbingthem to the woods, where Clarke’s father could treat them He and Eric had just ducked back under the cover of the trees, supporting soainst his shoulder blade Wells had turned to find a strange, uns

Awareness crept in The feel of hard, cracked wood beneath his shoulders A swaying motion, like he’d felt on the dropship before it hit Earth’s atht flickered past his eyelids

"This one’s waking up," said a voice beside his ear,at a wooden wall, badly built, with gaps between the thin, rotting boards Through one of the gaps, he could see a green blur His bleary ly slowly The forest? They were h it This was some sort of vehicle