<span style="font-family:Assistant"><span style="font-size: 15px"><span class="fixed-color" style="color:#006633">Octavia nodded at Jasper's question. "I got most of them to agree. But Lexa's decided to stay here just to be on the safe side, to defend the place if it needs it. Indra and several of the guards have agreed to come with us. She said that they'll be ready to go in 30 minutes, they just need to pack some supplies, is all." The brunette held her daughter in her arms, and smiled as she watched Raelyn take one of Jasper's hands into hers. She was glad that her sister in law was getting along with him. The young woman glanced down at Laqueta and smiled again, as she saw how happy her daughter was. <br/>
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The girl was making spit bubbles and giggling.<br/>
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Clarke smiled as she watched Bellamy hold Aurora in his arms. "I'm fine, really. I'm just tired, is all. But I'm also not ready to go to sleep just yet. I wanna watch you and our girl together. And, I know I can ask you if I need anything. But like I said, I'm good for now."  She stopped talking a few moments later and instead, just enjoyed the sight of her husband holding their daughter, talking to her and cuddling her. The blonde chuckled softly. "Why do I get the feeling that you're gonna scare off any boy that looks at her, when she's older?"<br/>
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"And well, you know. You might not be able to call me Princess anymore. Not when our little girl's going to be her Daddy's little Princess. </span><span class="fixed-color" style="color:rgb(0, 102, 51)">Otherwise it would just be too weird." The young woman fell silent for a moment, and then frowned and looked at her husband. "Bellamy, there's something you need to know. And when Octavia, Jasper and the girl's get back from their trip, they'll need to know, too." She paused for a moment to figure out how to say what she needed to say.  "A few weeks ago, I overheard Kane and Jaha talking."<br/>
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"They're putting a new law into effect soon. Given that there are so few of our people left after everything, they're making it a law that every woman we have left, that are between 18 and 45, have to have  a child for the next 5 years. </span></span><span class="fixed-color" style="color:rgb(0, 102, 51)"><span style="font-size: 15px">They're afraid that because the amount of people we have left is so small, we won't survive the next 10 or 20 years." A tense look was on her face as she said this. "Kane, Jaha, and my mother all know about this and have discussed it. The plan's for them to tell everyone tomorrow and put the law in place the day after."<br/>
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"This way it would give everyone a full day to get used to the idea. Before you ask, I've known about this for about 2 weeks now. I'm sorry for not telling you. I just didn't think they'd actually go through with making this into a law. We had some pretty crazy laws on the Ark. The one child rule. And now they want the exact opposite of that to  go down here."</span></span></span>