˗ˏˋ 𝐆𝐎𝐑𝐆𝐄𝐎𝐔𝐒 'ˎ˗ ❉ ───── 𝘃𝗼𝗹𝘂𝗺𝗲 𝗼𝗻𝗲. the wind and the water 𝑪𝑯𝑨𝑷𝑻𝑬𝑹 𝑬𝑳𝑬𝑽𝑬𝑵 ━━ '... when the fish reproduce'
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─"I'LL RACE YOU!" NETEYAM yells while hitting Attiah and Lo'ak each on the forearm before sprinting to the dock to jump in the water.
Tsireya had collected the Sully siblings bright and early that morning to learn the Metkayina ways.
"Hey!" Lo'ak screams after him to the water with Attiah chuckling and following. The three of them rambunctiously cannonball into the water (which contrasts to the Metkayina's gracious dives).
Kiri and Tuk also jump happily into the water, holding hands and canonballing together. As the children gaze around the reef, they are mesmerized by the fish, sea life, and coral that surrounds them.
They had only ever been subjected to the forest and the beauties of that area of Pandora. They'd never seen anything like it. They are so different and yet so similar- the reef and the forest. Attiah almost swallows the sea water as her mouth is fallen agape at the beauty of the reef.
Her hand skims the fin of a fish as a school of them swim around her and Tuk who is just as star struck. The Omaticayan girl notices how much effort it is taking her thin limbs to constantly push her body through the water, which becomes harder as they swim further. Now she understands why the Metkayina's have more visibly muscular bodies than them.
Smiling at the beauty of it all, she catches Tsireya's gaze, who is flashing her pearly whites while swimming on her back, her dimples on full display as she holds her eye contact with Attiah from above her.
Attiah begins to swim along with the girl when she becomes increasingly aware of the fact that she is a being that breathes air. Her chest becomes uncomfortably tight as she breaths out the rest of the air that was residing in her lungs. Attiah follows the floating bubbles from her mouth up to the surface to see that Tuk, Neteyam, and Lo'ak were having the same thoughts.
Inhaling a gulp of air when above the water, she catches her breath. Attiah and her brothers put their heads in the water to see the three Metkayinas looking at them expectantly (Tsireya kinder than the two boys). Tsireya makes some notions with her hands as if she were speaking another language with that same genuine smile pressed against her smooth lips.
When Attiah furrows her brows, Lo'ak shakes his head, and Neteyam shrugs his shoulders in confusion, she giggles and waves at them to come on and follow.
Attiah takes a deep breath full of air before submerging with her siblings.
The Sully's frail their bodies around in the water, trying to keep up with the natural divers. They all use the coral to help push them along but this time it is even shorter amount of time before the four of them need air, them all swimming back up to the surface.
