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[Chapter 2] [Start Here] [The First Story]

Summary:

After six years in the Shallow Valley following Praimfaya, the lives of Clarke, Roan, their daughter Eden, and Madi are upended with the arrival of new and dangerous visitors. Not desiring an repeat of the conflict the Arkers had with the Wood Clan, Clarke decides to extend the olive branch. As they try to help them adjust to this new Earth, Clarke and Roan find themselves in the middle of a conflict with two warring factions, with Colonel Charmaine Diyoza’s right hand man plotting to seize the reins of power.

Meanwhile, Bellamy and Echo and six of their friends hope that things on Earth will be better this time. Abby finds herself sinking deeper into an addiction despite her best efforts to become clean. As those in the Bunker make the move to the Valley, Luna tries to see to it that the Valley isn't their only option for survival on an mostly uninhabital Earth.

Things get more complicated and take an even weird turn when someone from one of the Eligius III missions comes to Earth.

Excerpt:

When Danielle Paxton McCreary wasn’t hacking into the Pentagon mainframes or publishing classified docs to show the masses data that she thinks they should know, she did a gig babysitting some of the kids of the upper echelons of New York’s Callahan Crime Family. A daughter of one of their top hitmen would pose less of a risk.             (And it was that massive sting operation that led to her discovery and arrest. Looking at her dad’s devices wasn’t enough for the feds, it seems. They just had to scour the devices owned by her, her mother, and brother as well to see if they were connected to the Callahan Family as well. Leave no stone unturned, right? They were surprised that it was the work of a high school student and not some adult with too much time on their hands)             She had charges that were shy. But none that looked at her with the distrust that the oldest was giving her right now.             “Come on, at least one of you must be at least hungry,” she tells them. Again trying to offer the foil-wrapped beef sandwiches she had with her. Stopping for a moment to cough. “Yeah, they might be over a century old, but they should be good. Sorry, got some crap in my lungs.”             Maybe if her sadistic, murderous psycho of a dad didn’t kill the ship’s doctor, they know what heck the shit was in their lungs. Just because he didn’t know what it was then, that didn’t mean he would have discovered it if he had been given the chance.

“I admit, we could have easily gotten on the wrong foot.” The Colonel sits down in one of the chairs in front of them. She leans back, cupping her hands at her abdomen as if she wanted to conceal something from them. Like that swell under her tactical armor he saw earlier. “You two could have picked off my men one by one in defense of this miraculous place. I wouldn’t have blamed you if you did.”             Roan couldn’t help but pity whoever else would have been here instead of them. He wouldn’t blame them if they had reacted on the defensive, even if it would get them killed.             “With your weapons at the ready, you would have returned the favor if we did,” Clarke points out without missing a beat, as the Colonel’s companion takes a seat next to her.  “I have been there before, and I don’t want to be there again.”             “With that face that has quite a story to tell, you’re smarter than you look, Earth Girl,” the Colonel divulges. “I wouldn’t have taken it kindly if you picked off any of our men.”

Read on AO3. First Story Here

Excerpt from the upcoming second chapter of When The Snow Clears. It story preceeding it ash daun en skai can also be read on AO3

[First Chapter] [The First Story]

*sequel to ash daun en skai*

After six years in the Shallow Valley following Praimfaya, the lives of Clarke, Roan, their daughter Eden, and Madi are upended with the arrival of new and dangerous visitors. Not desiring an repeat of the conflict the Arkers had with the Wood Clan, Clarke decides to extend the olive branch. As they try to help them adjust to this new Earth, Clarke finds herself in the middle of a conflict with two warring factions, with Colonel Charmaine Diyoza’s right hand man plotting to seize the reins of power.

Meanwhile, Bellamy and Echo and six of their friends hope that things on Earth will be better this time. Abby finds herself sinking deeper into an addiction despite her best efforts to become clean. As those in the Bunker make the move to the Valley, Luna tries to see to it that the Valley isn't their only option for survival on an mostly uninhabital Earth.

Things get more complicated when someone from one of the Eligius III missions comes to Earth.

Excerpt:

“If any of you can hear me, if you’re alive, it’s been two thousand, one hundred and ninety-nine days since Praimfaya,” Clarke began, holding down the button on the radio. “I don’t know why we still do this every day. Maybe it’s our way of keeping hope, that our friends are still alive.” She pauses. “It’s been safe for you to come down for over a year now. Why haven’t you?” Another pause. “The bunker’s gone silent, too. We tried digging them out for a while, but there was too much rubble. We haven’t made contact with them, either. Anyway, we still have hope. Raven, aim for the one spot of green, and you’ll find us. The rest of the planet, from what we’ve seen, basically sucks, so –”             Clarke is interrupted from her session when she hears a disturbance in the sky. Looking up, she sees what looks like an small ship descend from the sky. Hope and relief filling every cell in her body as she slowly stands up. After six years, there’s only one explanation of who they might be.             “Never mind, I see you,” she breathes into the radio.             “Mom, is it them!?” pipes up Eden as Clarke could sense Roan beside her.             How Clarke saw it, who else could it be?

In the recent session of Roarke's game, he finally got to meet his rival face-to-face, another automaton of the same make.