Chapter 20

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Tsyal was alone in the forest, walking around and admiring the beauty of it, when she hears a rustle nearby.

"Hello? Is someone there?" She calls out.
No one comes out.
"Must be the wind" she mutters and continues to walk. But she hears it again.
She turns back around and stands there, watching carefully.

She follows the sound and then hears someone give a little sneeze.
Tsyal then looks closely, seeing someone's head.
"Who's there?" She asks.
"Leave me alone" she hears him say.
He sounded upset.

She walks forward.
"Are you okay?" Tsyal asks.
"I said leave me alone" he says and looks up at Tsyal.
She gasps as she sees him covered in blood.
"Oh my. What's happened to you?" Tsyal asks.
"I got beat up" he says.
"Why would someone do this?" Tsyal looked confused.

"They don't want me. No one wants me" He says.
"Come with me. My aunt is a Tsahìk. She can help you" Tsyal says.
He shakes his head no.
"It's the least I can do for finding you here. I can't leave u here like this" Tsyal says.
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"Aunt! Mother! Father!" Tsyal shouts.
Kiri and Ni'awtu walk out the mauri, followed by Lo'ak who was behind them.
"What's going on?" Ni'awtu asks.
"Who's this?" Lo'ak walks forward.

"I found him in the forest. He was all bloody and injured. We need to help him" Tsyal says.
"Come son" Lo'ak says to him.
He takes him towards Kiri and Kiri takes him inside.

Lo'ak then looks to Tsyal, "so now we are just talking to strangers?"
"Father. He was injured" Tsyal said.
"I have told you already, not to talk to people you do not know" Lo'ak raises his tone at her.

Tsyal looks down.
"Lo'ak" Ni'awtu holds his hand.
He looks at her.
"The little boy is hurt. Let us heal him and find out who he is" Ni'awtu says in a soft tone, to calm him.
Lo'ak looks to Tsyal, "you have dissapointed me daughter."

He walks inside the mauri to where Kiri had taken the boy.
"Tsyal. Your father is just worried. He is not really disappointed in you" Ni'awtu says.
But Tsyal walks away with her head still down.

Ni'awtu sighs and walks to the mauri.
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"What is your name?" Lo'ak asks the boy.
"Pähem" he says.
"Pähem is a weird name" Ro'a says as she's sat in the same mauri.
"Ro'a!" Ni'awtu whispers at her in a telling off tone.

The boy laughs, "my father named we a weird name because he does not like me."
"Who is your father?" Ni'awtu asks him.
"I don't know his name. He never let me call him any other name other than sir" Pähem says.

"Who hurt you?" Lo'ak asks.
"They were older men. A group of them. About three" Pähem says.
"Na'vi?" Ni'awtu asks.
He nods, and then looks at Kiri's hands, "they were like you. Four fingers."
Ni'awtu and Lo'ak look at each other in shock.

"What were they wearing?" Ni'awtu asks.
"They were in full clothing" Pähem says.
"Do they know you're here?" Ni'awtu asks.
"They just left me in the forest" Pähem says.

Lo'ak pulls Ni'awtu's arm and takes her out the mauri, moving away from everyone.
"We have to leave this place. And take him too" Lo'ak says.
"What?" Ni'awtu looked confused.
"The sky people. What he's described is sky people. I killed one of them. I will be their first target and do you know what that means? For our family. We have to leave and go somewhere far" Lo'ak says.

"Lo'ak you cannot ask for this" Ni'awtu says.
"We have no choice" Lo'ak replies.
"The kids have grown up here. The forest, the people. Everything they've ever known. This is our home" Ni'awtu says.

"If they find us, they will kill us. Think about our kids. About us. Our future" Lo'ak says.
"If they come we will keep our kids safe and we can fight them" Ni'awtu says.
"Just listen to me" Lo'ak says.
Ni'awtu holds his hand, "when your father lay dying, he asked for one thing. To protect the people."

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