Threading through the woods beside me was Octavia who stood protectively close to me with her sword out instead of the rifle on her back.
On my other side was Clarke who had her rifle held in hand and ready for anything as I had told them, I had told them that we were likely walking into a trap so they were on high alert.
We walked in groups of 5, I was with the two girls alongside Munroe and Harper.
Them being pretty eye candy didn't have anything to do with my pick of them, I promise. I just liked them more than the others except Miller who was a total friend.
There were other 4 more groups of us, they were keeping a slight distance and fanned out to cover more ground and get better vantage points for any attack that may come.
We walked for 4 hours as slowly and stealthily as possible, this was more to train them and get them acclimated to wilderness stealth than anything as there weren't any grounders in our vicinity, there was a concentration of them by the bridge though, hidden.
We got to our destination just as the sun peaked out of the hills and there waiting was Lincoln, he immediately frowned when seeing us fully geared.
I guess he expected us to not bring any weapons just as he said.
Munroe and Harper stayed behind at the edge of the start of the bridge while Clarke and Octavia walked with me to the quarter of the distance where Lincoln stood waiting.
" I'm guessing we're early?" I asked jokingly as I looked at the trees openly, there were grounders situated there with their bows and arrows at the ready.
" We said no weapons." Said Lincoln before looking at the girls beside me, his gaze paused at Octavia before coming back to me.
And I admit, for that second I had thought headbutting him there and then before I reigned in that sudden impulse.
' Huh... that's new.' I thought blinking away that sudden impulsive thought.
" Yeah well, I think I forgot about that one detail." I muttered bored." Plus, why would I abide by something neither your men abided by?"
" Mmmmm..." He groaned before speaking in a language that I didn't understand." 7#(&$)3"
' Huh?...is that Trigedasleng?' I thought but then internally paused when a sudden screen appeared before me.
[—You've learnt skill: Languages[Lv-1/10]-]
' Oh....that was unusually easy to gain.' I thought internally frowning at that, skills weren't that easy to learn that much I knew.
So having learned a new skill from simply hearing what I could only describe as a single word was a bit too out there for my understanding of how my skills worked.
' My system is all over the place ain't gonna lie...' I thought with a sigh before focusing on the other side of the bridge.
Three horses rode forward, and on the front was a beautiful exotic-looking woman who stared straight at me.
I was just about to cast [Observe] on her but paused when behind them walked out Finn, staggering and his face bloodied being held by a rope in his hands by another grounder, a small girl.
" Finn!" Shouted Clarke before she tried to run forward but a glance from Octavia was all that was needed before she grabbed and held Clarke in place.
" Clarke, calm down!" Shouted Octavia holding Clarke back with a bit of difficulty, Clarke was stronger than her physically after all.
" Clarke! Stand down." I said, immediately she paused but looked at me almost pitifully before looking back at Finn.
Sighing to myself I shook my head and focused on the boy on the other side.
' When the fuck did they capture him?' I wondered frowning.
I hadn't kept watch of Finn after having found out from Clarke that he stayed at the bunker most of the time, I also found out that he rarely was seen and was only seen when he came back to grab some food and a bucketful of moonshine.
I had just shrugged him off as a newly placed alcoholic and didn't keep track of him using my technique Flora Perception.
Looking at Lincoln who looked at their leader in the front with a frown I deduced that he didn't know about that one detail so I didn't give him any mind.
He walked off towards them though, I followed behind him after their leader who I finally remembered was named Anya got off her horse and walked towards us.
We met at the center of the bridge, and after sharing a glance with Lincoln he passed us without a problem leaving us to our business.
I didn't speak, I simply looked at her straight in her eyes with my face expressionless but was able to show a bit of true displeasure.
I didn't like the fact that they kidnapped one of my own without me knowing, it was a bit of my fault as I didn't pay attention to the boy but still.
We stayed staring at each other for a couple of minutes before she wavered and spoke.
" Ezekiel Sinclair, leader of the Sky People, a pleasure to make your acquaintance." She spoke first, and I raised an eyebrow in surprise at that.
Not at her yielding first in our childish power play game but at the fact that she was being respectful to a point.
I did though look back at Finn with a frown, she knew my name and possibly other things and I'd bet my left nut that the fucker Finn was the reason.
Me being the petty fucker I immediately used [Observe] on the woman in front of me, this was to even things out by knowing her name and also to see how much of a threat she was.
[—Name: Anya.
—Race: Human.
—[Stats]—
—Body: 30
—Mind: 15
—Energy: 5
—Sense: 25
—Status Effect: Blodded II.
—[]—
' Fuck....'