[ did the guys in mount weather hand out promises while he was hung upside down? bellamy can't recall. it's difficult for him to believe anyone isn't playing the political game. the representatives are saying the right things, doing the right things, smiling the right way — but for people like them, like bellamy and lincoln and all the other kids from the ground, it's a difficult pill to swallow. no one in space or on the actual earth itself has been this accommodating. ]

[ bellamy hesitates. showing weakness isn't a strength. if he lets lincoln know, by his tone, his choice of words, even in his pause, that he isn't so confident in his own belief the representatives are untrustworthy, he feels like he'll lose his own footing among his people and with himself. but lincoln's seen him at his most afraid — when he'd been torturing him and when he'd placed his trust in him to stick to a plan. ]

I don't know if they're going to say one thing and do another. [ he wishes it was as easy as that, as black and white as it has been for as long as he can remember. but he isn't so sure if he believes in it anymore. ] I've spoken to one of the representatives. I don't know how it works among the Grounders, but usually when you question someone in a position of power, they want to make an example of you. [ he expects kane would've. he thinks commander shumway tried to. he doesn't doubt lexa would make an example out of someone who thought to question her. but he pauses, his voice lowering, ] She didn't.