The Breath of Water | Neteyam

6 • Circumstances Pt. II

A/N: I notice some comments telling me that Rotxo was not in the upcoming scene in the movie, but I want you all to know that I know that already 😂. I have decided to place him there, sorry I made him a bit of a meanie 😭, but he won't stay that way, lol. This is all I wanted to say, thanks!

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A couple of weeks had passed and Tsireya had been teaching the kids how to breathe and the sign language of the Metkayina by herself ever since Liyanin had received her beads, since for some reason she was not in the mood to go. Tsireya had told her sister of how Lo'ak was getting better to breathe, and the kids were getting the hang of the language. But Liyanin's head was somewhere else. While floating in the waters of the Cove of the Ancestors, she was thinking about the beads from her dad and Neteyam. However, she had yet to place the one she got from the Sully boy on her songcord. She held onto it because she was afraid her mom or siblings would ask where she got it from, but she did not have a cover story yet. Why did she even need a cover? Why was she so afraid to tell the others where she got it from? She didn't understand nor know why. Maybe it was because she knew how her mom felt about the foreigners, so she did not want to disappoint her by having received an item, a songbead, no less, from them.

She decided to keep it in her sack for the time being. And instead of letting the songbead occupy her thoughts all day, she had begun to think of the premonition she had the day she fell into the water. She tried to figure out the connection between the sequences. She wondered why her brother was involved, why that specific coral was so important, and why the Ilu was running. The Ilu usually swam away, but she noticed that in her vision, it looked terrified. Like it was running from something. Then the coral, the coral did not seem familiar to her at all, but she normally explores the underwaters of their sea. So, she was confused as to where that was. But the real confusing part of it all was her brother. She tried to think why she would see him in her vision: was something going to happen to him? Or was he going to do something?

She attempted to piece the different sequences together, changing the order of each one, seeing if that would form some sort of logical sense in her head, but to no avail, she had failed. She didn't like visions like this, they were always confusing and hard for her to put together. It was almost like she had some sort of an obligation to find out what she saw and try to change it. She usually never did, but this time felt different. Especially since her brother was involved. She did not want anything bad to happen to him, so she wanted to figure out what her vision was trying to show to her.

While Liyanin was having a near mid-life crisis trying to put together pieces of her seer puzzle, her mom rode into the cove on her tsurak in order to come and get her.

"I need you to go and retrieve the Sullys, we are going to go collect some of this season's harvest." Ronal said.

Liyanin turned to her mom and nodded, then calling for her Ilu. When it arrived she mounted it and went to go do what Ronal had asked.

When she arrived at the Sullys' pod, she only saw Kiri and Tuk there.

"Where are the others?" she asked.

"Liyanin!" Tuk yelled, as she came running over to the girl. "It's been so long! Why did you stop coming to lessons?"

Taken aback by the little girl's excitement, she was left confused as to why Tuk seemed so...happy, to see her. "Uh, I...I have not been feeling well, is all." She muttered sheepishly. Tuk then ran to give her a hug, but Kiri got up to prevent Liyanin from being attacked by her embrace.

"I am sorry, she has been sort of wild, lately." Kiri laughed.

"Oh, it is alright." Liyanin replied. "...but where is your family?"