"We were literally on the brink of extinction," Clarke said. "I stayed behind so some of my people could make it back to space." This wasn't an easy thing to talk about, but she felt like Gus might be able to understand. He came from a pretty messed up world too, it sounded like.

"I thought I was dead when I woke up here. I remember feeling the radiation, choking on my blood. And then it all went dark and I was here." And there wasn't a sign of radiation on her. The nightblood had worked, it had just taken it's time.

"Yeah, your house should be just up here a little way." Clarke said.