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The 100 but with aliens!

I thought I was being brave for saving the world. For surviving the aliens, for going out into space. For saving my planet. No one ever said I was brave to keep living.

The First 7 picks up not long after the ending of The Last 8. The Last Teenagers on Earth have ended an alien invasion that wiped out most of humanity and have left them to the stars trying to find a place where they could call home. Unfortunately, not all of the Universe is so welcoming. And then, something calls them back to Earth. Who? How? Why?

“Damn. Aliens.”
Somehow, that sums up all of my life in the last year and a half.

Back on Earth, a lot has changed since the gang left. Shit. Goes. Down. Dark Willow even makes an appearance.

While The Last 8 was about the apocalypse, The First 7 is what happens after the World ends. This duology has been a fun ride and I'm sad it's over.

Ever since the day the aliens arrived, I started running and never looked back. Even while taking back the Earth, while going to face them, it was the only thing I knew how to do. The only way I found that I could fix this broken world and the broken me.

We humans keep forgetting. How tiny we are. How small when compared to the whole universe. But when I look around, I only see what we humans have seen for so long. That despite everything, we still stand. We survive. And I think that’s bigger than the universe itself.

Triggers:(view spoiler)[Talk of suicide attempts. PTSD. Anxiety. Death. I put my trigger warnings behind a spoiler cut not because they're not important, but because it's the actual words that tend to trigger me and I would like to be mindful of others who may feel that way too. (hide spoiler)]

***Quotes are taken from an uncorrected proof and are subject to change.***