Tsawke|Tsu'tey/Oc

6-Hiyìk

I focused all of my time at perfecting my aim. Tsu'tey took time to go train his own students how to ride Pa'li. I want to do that too, but I need to do this first. Tsu'tey never wasted time on pleasantries, and he didn't treat me like any of his other students. But he was cautious about my feelings and gave me a certain amount of respect. Which, he didn't owe me any. But I learned that women, no matter their species, we're always given some respect. It's because of our ability to see, in a spiritual sense, sometimes much easier than men. Not only that but we carry children and we mother them. In that way, we are stronger than most men. And in no way is an infertile woman any less than one who is fertile.

The Na'vi are culturally and socially opposites of human culture. It's amazing.
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Soon, Max told Grace something. I wasn't sure what it was but soon we were moving to Site 26. I guess that was pretty far away because, we were carrying all the things we brought with us to the Sampson helicopter. Trudy was there with us. I had to sit in the back because there are only three extra seats in the front of the Sampson.
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I could see pretty much nothing until the fog cleared, that was alright because I was really motion sick. So, as soon as we landed, I made a beeline for the shack.

"This is my bunk, Jake you get bottom bunk, Norm you get the bunk at the end, and Kohane, you get the bunk over his."

"Sweet! Top bunk!" I tossed my stuff up on the top bunk and rushed to the link room.

"Jake, hang a left. You'll be in the link at the end." Jake wheeled past me and Grace to his link, "unit one, beulah. She's the least glitchy." She turned to Norm, "Norton I'm gonna need you to operate Jakes link, I'll be handling K's so we both have to do our part."

"Wai- what? Oh come on." He sighed in disbelief.

"You got a problem?" Jake asked Norm.

"Yeah! I do. I trained three years for this mission. I-I speak the language fluently. He-he falls off the fricken turnip truck and all the sudden he's the cultural ambassador?" Norm stuttered in a rage.

"It's not our choice Norm."

"Yeah, well you know what? I didn't come here to wash dishes while your on some interspecies booty call." He stated. He walked into the next room over to blow off some steam

"Well, he can't go far. I'll get your links up and running." Grace stated.
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I was excited to learn, and Tsu'tey said that my marksmanship was sufficient enough so, now it's pa'li riding.

"I would make you earn the respect of a pa'li, but I don't think you'd be able to." He took the reigns of a well trained pa'li, "she will be your partner in this." He was talking about the pa'li. There was no saddle or anything to grab onto when I tried to get up, so I had to really jump. It wasn't so hard, but I'm much shorter than most Na'vi.

"Tsaheylu, it is the bond. Your tswin must connect with hers."

Curiously, I looked at her queue before grabbing my braid and connecting the ends together. It was and explosion of surprise for both of us.

"Inside, you can say where to go. Be specific or she won't do what you think she may do." He explained.

I kind of thought about what I wanted to do. I pictured it in my head. I could tell she understood, but when we went to execute it, we were disrupted by a stray child. We both stopped instinctively.

"Fool! You must pay more attention." He said to both the child and I. He shooed the kid back into the protection of home tree.

"Start again!" He shouted.
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"I remember falling a lot, I wasn't very skilled at riding a horse because of my poor balance." I spoke into the camera, "it's not that it's hard, I'm just really clumsy. Surprisingly, Tsu'tey is patient with me. He says that I am learning quicker than Jake and that's all that matters to him, but I think he wishes I would fail or snap back at him to give him a reason to boot me from the clan." I scratch my nose and try to finish up the log but I keep going, "it's not that I blame him, I can't blame him at all. I don't know what he's been through. As far as I know, his entire life has been plagued by my species."
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"Everyday, I'm getting a little better, Tsu'tey makes me practice archery from the pa'li now that I know how to keep my balance. Tangek and Rìni let me tag along on their gathering trips, and their mom lets me watch her cook at meal times. Turns out, they don't have cheese in any form. But there is a plant that they use to gain the same taste and effect. They strip the outer layer and juice the plant, the fibers are dried and used in weaving later, the juice ferments and they add a flower made from dried seeds and nuts, it hardens within days and boom, Na'vi cheddar cheese. Though, it's a white color and not orange."

"With tutoring from Tangek, Tsu'tey, Grace, and Norm, the language is becoming easier to understand. I can understand it and I can speak it fluently, the accent is coming in and with all the time I spend speaking it, maybe I'll dream in Na'vi instead of English."

"Jake and I have been going through old photos of the school Grace ran. The kids looked truly happy. I still don't know what happened there."

"We've moved onto moving silently in the forest, studying the sounds and sights of the lake nearby. It's beautiful. The sturmbeests are so big! They're so different from the other fauna. I'm lucky I brought my camera one time, or I wouldn't have caught this photo." The photo was a Sturmbeest bull, bellowing at the sky, sort of a way to move the herd.

"Tsu'tey... he is- he expects a lot from me. More than his other students it seems. I'm not sure why, but he's speeding up my training. Not just that but Grace is now welcome at Hometree, she looks so happy to see the kids again. She's been taking care of us like a mean aunt would, but it's out of good intentions."
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I had just finished up training with Tsu'tey with tracking and learning how to sneak up on an animal. And I was so ready to turn in for the night, but instead Tsu'tey took me to a river by kelutral. It was more like a creek, and the waters were glowing with bioluminescent fish and plants.

"I used to come here with my father before he became an elder in the clan, he would take Arvok and I to fish like his home-clan would." He gazed down into the glowing waters before dipping a hand in and running his fingers through the anemnoids.

"He's not from the Omatikaya?" Tsu'tey shook his head.

"He's from the Syu'tsanì clan. Their clan is far south from here."

"Do you know what it's like?"

"No, I do not. I've never been there, but one day I hope to know what the clan my father came from was like."

We didn't talk much more than that.