first one who touches the ground loses

Days turned into weeks.

Lincoln kept hovering and giving Octavia space in equal measure. Not that he had a choice: the commander's kill order (given for siding with Skaikru, for siding with her) on him still stood. When she left Arkadia, it wasn't safe for him to follow.

Octavia took Helios out past Arkadia's walls as often as she could. Her horse didn't ask questions she couldn't answer, and had no expectations she couldn't meet. Didn't act like she didn't belong or like there was something wrong about her. He'd whinnied when he'd first seen her again, and pushed his head against her hands, and that was that. He was easy, in a way people weren't.

(Helios also couldn't tell anyone how often their trips together took them back to where she and Bellamy had been dropped off by the multiverse.)

She continued not to feel much about anything.

( But then there was Jasper. )

[ooc: NFB, NFI, OOC okay! Inspired by and partly lifted from The 100 S3 eps 1 and 2.]