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Chapter 8

"Enid? Enid?" I opened my eyes in the sound of a whisper voice in my ear. There are also a pair of hands gently shaking my shoulders.

"Hmm?" I saw blue in my blur sight.

"Enid, hey, are you awake?" when I recognized the owner of the whispered voice, I jolted in an instance, sitting and pulling my blanket over me.

"Neteyam! What are you doing here?"

With the look on his face, I think he's been up for quite a while now. His face was very bright and full of energy while smiling right in front of me. "You need to see this."

I started to breathe heavily and pulled the blanket even higher. For Eywa's sake! I'm just just wearing something very inappropriate as of the moment. I don't care if he's used to seeing Na'vis wearing their traditional clothes. And I don't even know how he opened the door when I'm pretty sure I locked it last night.

In a second, I think it finally hit him. He slowly looked down the blanket, his excited face started to fade and replace with dark shade of blue on his cheeks. "Sorry." he seperated from me and touched his nape. "Uhm, I gotta go. I'll see you outside." then used all his speed to get out.

I sighed and took some clothes from my cabinet to wear. I also washed my face and wore my black mask before going out.

I didn't realize that the sun is really up. I guess I got tired about everything, from taking care of Neteyam to testing the plants I picked myself yesterday.

"There you are. Good morning sunshine." I rolled my eyes to meet Neteyam's annoying smiling fangs.

"I told you to stop--" I punched his thigh. "--calling me that."

He just laughed at me. "You need to see the plants." he started, guiding me at the front of my lab where I put those ten infected plants.

My jaw dropped seeing the results. In front of us are those ten infected plants with different kinds of result. Half of them withered, dry, falling. Some really got worse that there are insects flying around it and even with a mask on, I could smell how nasty they smell like. One stayed the same as if nothing happened.

But the one with an orange pot had a better change. The black spots it had yesterday vanished, in return, it returned to its lively color of green. Not just that, it bloomed flowers when yesterday, it doesn't even have buds on it.

"Shit." I gasped and with a teary eyes looked at Neteyam. "It worked! Neteyam, it worked!"

He smiled at me. "I know. I know. You did great. You succeeded." he comforted me.

I ran towards that plant. "It didn't just healed. It's healthier. Its like it became an antidote and a fertilizer." I whispered in amusement.

Neteyam sat beside me as I touch the leaves, flabbergasted. "I think we'll gonna need to start now and find those things you combined. I'm pretty sure we'll spend a whole lot of time to prepare the cure enough to spray this whole forest."

My eyes widen in realization and looked at him. "You're right! You're damn right, uhm. Where do I start? We need uhm..." I started to rub my palm, trying to think. But my mind was very shocked that I can't comprehend anything.

Neteyam chuckled then gently rubbed my back. "Hey, look at me. I understand you're completely perplexed, but you need to calm down, Enid. I need you with me. Can you do that for me?"

My chest was expanding and deflating continuesly but when I was drown with Neteyam's stare, my heart started to calm down. I breathed normal and my mind relaxed. "Thank you."