Not the End

5 - Time Flew

A lot of time has been spent with the Sully's these last few weeks. If we aren't at the lab, or adventuring through the forest, Kiri and I are walking along the river, or sitting around ponds, talking about animals, nature, Eywa, and sometimes even... Spider.

As much as I love my family, I have been feeling that I've come as far as I can grow with them. There's not much else to learn from them, and my days feel wasted when spent at home. At the base I can learn about science, English, humans, and even more about Pandora. I only feel whole when I'm with the Sully's. But I have this lingering feeling that I am spending too much time with them; That, maybe they will grow tired of me after a while, that I am moving to fast, coming on too strong. I brought it up to Kiri, but she always tells me the opposite, but she is Kiri, and it hasn't stopped my thoughts.

Honestly, I haven't spent much time with my own family since I was really young. Once Kata was old enough to take care of herself, I started to slip away, and spend all my days on my own. So, I guess the amount of time I spend with my family hasn't changed really. I just share my time with the Sully's now, rather than being alone every day. But now, with them, I am learn new skills, different ways hunt, fish, and even how to fight. My mother would never allow the me to fight, I am just "her little girl". I am focused on improving myself, only really going home to see Kata. But with every passing day, I grow stronger, and happier. 

--- Time Skip --- 

Those weeks turned into months, and pretty soon, the months turned into years.

When I first met the Sully kids, I was fifteen. We have been running together for three years now. About a year ago, unexpectedly, the sky people returned. All that time they were back on their star, was time spent preparing and developing new tech, they aren't giving up on taking Pandora. They never gave up the fight, this time they're back, and they think they're back for good. They set up a new base, ten times bigger and stronger than the original, impenetrable.

We had to move the clan away from the Tree of Souls, to the Hallelujah Mountains. Our new home for the foreseeable future is High Camp, we live within the caverns of the mountains. Apparently, the sky people's tech doesn't work here, for sciencey reasons Norm explained, but I don't care to fully understand. All I know is it's the safest place we can be right now. They cannot find us here, even if they know we are in the mountains. The mountains are everchanging. 

Jake Sully has been training everyone on how to deal with the sky people, while the humans at the first base are doing everything they can to help. They set up a new base in the mountains with us, we are still coexist, pooling our resources. They use their tech to plan attacks to raid the RDA supply caravans, and we're working to build a Na'vi army with the skills and technology to fight against the sky people when the time was right. It seemed Jake had a plan for every situation.

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The wind whistles through the rocks, it is too cloudy to see anything clearly.

Kiri, Tuk and Safi were waiting for their return. When they got back, it was clear something wasn't right. Neytiri tried to calm Jake, while Kiri and Tuk checked their brothers' injuries. Safi inspected the ikran and took off their gear, not wanting to interfere with the family issues.

(Safi watches outside the rocks, waiting for the war party, today is another big caravan raid. Kiri is painting those stupid blue stripes onto Spider. He's a nice and all, but he's got some serious identity issues. I guess you can't really blame him. At last I'm saved from this torture, the sound of the ikrans and the war party returning. 

"Kiri, Spider, Safi! The war party's coming back!" I start to stand but she's already grabbed my hand and pulling me so hard I stumble a bit. "Come on, Come on!" We run to the landing, ready to greet them, Tuk holds my hand so tight it hurts. "Where are they." She worries under her breath.