Tsawke|Tsu'tey/Oc

8-Ke srefamey 'eylan

He let me go for the night so I could unlink. Which I did, reluctantly. I haven't felt quite like myself in my own body. I mean, I take care of myself! This isn't the first instance of feeling like this but it's different.

When I go out into their world, I feel more like me than I've ever felt. And they're all so real and beautiful. It feels like home.

I ended up slipping out of the link bed anyway, I was exhausted but I need to drink water and eat something. I can't just not, right? This is still my body.

My dream that night, it was weird. It was just a flash of blue, purple and cyan. I didn't think too much of it and I thought it was one of those falling dreams but with color. Later I'd find out I was wrong.

I linked up early so I didn't have Grace pressuring me to eat or something. I woke up on the other side with Ka'ani, another student around the same age as me, inquiring about how I had completed most of the training. I knew it was weird but honestly, I didn't have anything else to do with my time here so I hyper-fixated on my training until I saw progress. I didn't know how to tell him that so I said to him,

"I just kept training, no matter how hard it was. It was not easy." I knew my answer wasn't satisfactory to him because he frowned a little and went to continue his training harder. Na'vi training is rigorous and strict because you're going from your childhood years into young adulthood. You spend your teenage years preparing for the career you want to go into. But everyone goes through iknimaya with the exception of the 'emyu(cooks), narisiyu(watchers), and starsiyu(gatherers). The starsiyu gather food, the 'emyu cooks it. And the Narisiyu babysits the young kids whose parents are doing their own jobs.

I don't think I could do those jobs, it sounds like a lot of work.

But anyway, he went off to do his thing, and I was left with Tsu'tey who scolded Ka'ani for bothering me so early in the morning.

"Come with me." He had me follow him up the spiral of Kelutral to one of the lower branches of the ikran rookery. It lead to a secluded and shade covered area. Tsu'tey called and made clicking noises at an unseen creature. I realized it was his Ikran by the greeting caw. Tsu'tey went to greet his friend while reminding me not to challenge the Ikran with eye contact.

"His name is Tìkawl." The ikran was a brilliant blue with sandy tones dusted on its belly and neck. He began adjusting the straps on the saddle and he climbed onto his bonded friend.

"Soon, after you find your calling, you will choose your ikran and they must choose you too." He spoke in a haze, a mix between his bond and Tìkawl's own thoughts.

"I understand." I watched him take off while making a bird call. It was beautiful and graceful watching him soar. For the past two years he's been doing this and I've been doing seemingly nothing half as cool. He wound through the branches and teasingly swooped just above the branch I was standing on. He made another call before circling around to land again.
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Grace was let into the clan to visit and teach. To observe not to learn. They haven't granted Norm any sort of permission to visit. They didn't need four dreamwalkers.

I spent my time in kelutral finding something i liked to do. I tried weaving, painting, foraging, but the only thing I found enjoyment in was making things. That and foraging. I liked asking the Zeykoyu, or the healer, for things to look for to help out and she'd direct me to her supply and give me an example of what she needs and I go out near the waterhole and find whatever plant or resource she needs in any amount needed. So I figured I'd choose to be her understudy since healers are in short supply with the tensions making more children want to be warriors, like Tsu'tey.