[An artifact that they couldn't control? And being used as an energy source? It's an unpleasant situation, and one that Clarke isn't quick to say she'd prefer. She's been aware of how people were used as sources of life back home, and it's not something that she imagines would sit well with her people, and especially not the people once known to her as the grounders.

But then, who would like that? Or want that?]

And there was never a choice for the people there. Not that we have much of one here. We've theorized why some of us end up here, whether we were set on this world to change it or not—admittedly, I don't like thinking of us as important enough to matter one way or another. But I know that that's preference. I also hope we're not being used for something, though. I think I can be right in saying we're not. [It's all her circling around to say what she hopes.

Clarke knows that, too.]