Epiphany Of Eywa {Avatar & Avatar TWOW}

Love.

I haven't spoken to Jake since our conversation (which barely counts as a conversation) four days ago.

To be honest I didn't want to. For the last few days I had walked around him, and I would continue to do so, until he fixed his mistake. I just hoped it'd be soon. Jake was someone who wasn't supposed to be here, and yet if he wasn't here, I wouldn't have met Eyve.

If he hadn't of challenged those hammerheads, I would be taking samples right now. But I wasn't.
Despite all that, it didn't give him the benefit of the doubt.

"Belle." Eyve says beside me, pressing a hand to my shoulder. I flinch slightly at being snapped out of my thoughts so suddenly.Even if this was one of the best moments of my career, or life, I couldn't help but think about Jake and his mistakes.

I know I needed to snap out of it, I needed to be connected for this moment. "Are you ready?" He says as he paints the last of the colouring over my lips.

I smile as he delicately puts the bowl down, excited to live through this moment. "No, but fuck it." I sigh, blinking a few times to try and calm myself.

Grace was somewhere in the crowd, that somewhat helped calm my nerves, but becoming one of the people was a big deal. The warrior painting was not what I was given, instead I was given that of a spiritual teacher. Meaning my duties with the clan were to care for them spiritually and teach them of their queues and such.

It was mostly scientific, thankfully, but I appreciated the spiritual side.

"You will be fine, now come." Eyve waves me on, nudging me slightly out of the space we were given to prepare.

When I leave, I move to get to the second floor and wait for Eyve to pass me.

He moves around me, giving me a reassuring smile before going to stand with the people. As he was not one of the higher-people, he was forced to stay among the rest of the clan.
Which he didn't complain about, but it made me more nervous somehow.

I knew they had accepted me, I knew that I was part of The People now. But still, something told me they still saw me as a Skyperson.

Some nagging thing in the back of my mind was not convinced I was truly welcomed by every one. And it would eventually fuck something up, I knew that.

So the only thing I could do, was ignore it. I would ignore it until it became important.
I start walking to where Mo'at and and Eytukan were waiting.

In those few steps, my nerves tripled. Neytiri offers me a smile as she moves to stand by her father.

Me and Neytiri were complicated. We always had been. We were friends, I had told her about me and Eyve a lot, and her about her and Jake.

Although, I didn't feel like I needed to avoid her. Neytiri never held grudges if they weren't hers to be held.

If anything she kept her own feeling to herself. It didn't matter what anyone else thought. She was powerful in that sense.
And a lot like her mother.

I see Grace behind her, smiling like an idiot. When I meet her eye, she waves at me like I'm a child going to preschool for the first time.
I appreciated our mother-daughter bond. She made me feel safer.

She comforted me during just about every thing. I'd die before I let anything touch a hair on her head. And I know she would say the same about me.

Eytukan starts speaking and my eyes unconsciously trail to find Eyve. When I don't spot him immediately, my face drops.
But then I meet his eye, and I'm pretty sure my stomach did backflips. I had a small grin on his face, because that's all he would show in front of anyone but me.

I smile at him and then make a mental note of where he was so I could glance back at him.
When I look back at Eytukan, he had finished his little monologue and looks at me with a proud look.

"You are now a daughter of the Omaticaya." He says.

My heart gets lodged in my throat and I suck in a harsh breath.

I can't help but let the stupidly huge smile appear on my face and jump a little on the balls of my feet. "You are one of the people." With his final words, I shut my eyes and pinch my lips together. I had to be dreaming.