[it's probably the best idea to pull raven away while her temper boils, because she has a dull knife in her pocket and enough of rage to let loose on someone with it. blood calls for blood and whatnot. if clarke's gone all-grounder princess on them now, considering her having commander bitchface coming to her rescue, then why not just adopt all the gruesome traditions?
she doesn't want to see her face right now anyway. she doesn't want to see her face or handle the truth, and she keeps an admirable straight face for a while. while they're climbing the stairs up to the first floor, because raven's just going to hole up in there and clarke can wait a million years before following. they're her stairs now.
halfway to the first floor, with her hand gripping octavia's for balance, she starts shaking. it feels like a convulsion, her whole body rejecting the idea that finn is dead like it's cancer. she opens her mouth to say something like i'm fine, but what happens is another one of those dying animal sounds come out, and she just crashes down, knees hitting the edge of the stairs.]
lobby>>somewhere else (locked to octavia blake)
she doesn't want to see her face right now anyway. she doesn't want to see her face or handle the truth, and she keeps an admirable straight face for a while. while they're climbing the stairs up to the first floor, because raven's just going to hole up in there and clarke can wait a million years before following. they're her stairs now.
halfway to the first floor, with her hand gripping octavia's for balance, she starts shaking. it feels like a convulsion, her whole body rejecting the idea that finn is dead like it's cancer. she opens her mouth to say something like i'm fine, but what happens is another one of those dying animal sounds come out, and she just crashes down, knees hitting the edge of the stairs.]