chapter 3

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it was now night time. you, tsireya, your mother, and ronal were all in a circle. "i've never done a lesson with another tashik." ronal mentioned, mixing herbs together.

you noticed two small figures in the corner of your eye and realized it was ao'nung and lo'ak, with both of their fathers. guess they were training too. your lips formed a small smile but soon disappeared as your mother called your attention. "marali, please pay attention." "sorry mother." you muttered grabbing the bowl she handed you.

tsireya silently giggled noticing what you were staring at. you gave her an annoyed expression. you four then got to work. every now and then you'd hear screams and thuds from the younger boys as their fathers lectured them.

you were mixing a bowl of herbs when suddenly tonowari and ao'nung walked up to you four. "what do you need?" ronal asked. "your son got injured." ronal lightly hissed at the younger boy, annoyed a little because she wanted to get the lesson over with. "come on sit down i don't have all day." she said tugging at her son which made you and tsireya giggle. ao'nung glared at the both of you.

"actually mother," tsireya began as her mother looked at her, "i feel like marali should do it, practice you know?" you knew what she was doing and she knew that you knew. "hey what?? i didn't sign up to be a lesson!" ao'nung protested. "oh shush, you'll be okay. just make sure to loosen up a little" his sister whispered jokingly.

"haha, very funny." ao'nung muttered, rolling his eyes.

ronal nodded as she moved and you got in her spot, in front of ao'nung. the wound was on his chest. you began applying medicine to his cut as he winced in pain. "sorry if it hurts, but i guess that's why your here. so he doesn't hurt." you whispered with a smile.

"eh it's fine, i'm a big boy. i can take it." you giggled as you continued patching him up. you both suddenly made eye contact and stayed like that for a few seconds, your hand still on his chest. you heard tsireya cough which made you both snap out of your daze.

after a few minutes you were done. you patted his chest where the cut was, "there you go big boy, all better now." you felt tsireyas and your mothers gaze on you. ao'nung thanked you and walked off. so did ronal for a second because of her baby.

you turned around and they immediately started asking questions. "do you like the boy?" your mother asked. "cmon, you definitely like him" tsireya added. "i've only known him for a few weeks. i do not fall for people that easily. he's just been very kind and easy to warm up to, along with you" you said turning to tsireya.

"fine fine we believe you, but he wouldn't be a bad mate." your mother whispered with a grin. "mom!" you shouted. this outburst made lo'ak and ao'nung look at you. you waved with a smile then turned back around, giving her a 'look at what you did' stare.

you then felt it suddenly get windy and when you looked up, you saw one of those big bird things coming to a landing with neytiri on it. apparently they were called ikrans. you got up in amazement, analyzing the bird. neytiri then hopped off of it after disconnecting the bond and went to go pet it. "i've always wanted to ride one of those but my mother won't let me and the sullys obey what my mom says" tsireya muttered.

you replied, "they look cool." ao'nung and lo'ak came up beside you and tsireya and said their hellos. "so how was your lesson?" lo'ak asked. "normal tashik things. nothing special." tsireya replied.

"how was your training? other than poor ao'nung needing to come get fixed up?" you said playfully. "first off, shush. second off, it's was okay. i'm finally getting to lo'aks level" ao'nung commented standing proud. "still weak though" lo'ak said with a cough to hide what he said but it was clear what the boy said.

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