( hell fucking yeah she wants to read some of it! and when the book is gently deposited on the ground between them, clarke all but snatches it up. it's a special kind of torture to be kept in a box for half a year, no outside mental stimulation except when she could remember a figure to try drawing. the guards don't talk to her, haven't told her how her mother is despite pleading at every other meal drop off.
and this all might be fake, but it's also the first time she's held a real book in her hands. all the others on board the ark are locked up as symbolic remembrances of the original grounders who brought them on board, and all schooling is dealt with via tablets and holograms. she flips the pages once experimentally, then sets in to reading.
and because she has company, deigns to read aloud. all the way through to when the characters are fully introduced and their first interaction before she pauses. slowly looks up from the page and squints at him. )
Is this going to be a story about love? ( she sounds wary, but none the less intrigued. were you ready to find out your best friend used to be a painfully romantic type, natsuno? )
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and this all might be fake, but it's also the first time she's held a real book in her hands. all the others on board the ark are locked up as symbolic remembrances of the original grounders who brought them on board, and all schooling is dealt with via tablets and holograms. she flips the pages once experimentally, then sets in to reading.
and because she has company, deigns to read aloud. all the way through to when the characters are fully introduced and their first interaction before she pauses. slowly looks up from the page and squints at him. )
Is this going to be a story about love? ( she sounds wary, but none the less intrigued. were you ready to find out your best friend used to be a painfully romantic type, natsuno? )