𖣘 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙉𝙮𝙖𝙡𝙖 𝘼𝙥𝙞 𖣘 𝙉𝙚𝙩𝙚𝙮𝙖𝙢 𝙎𝙪𝙡𝙡𝙮 𖣘

20.

    "She has 5 fingers. Sky people are not meant to—" Hantu was ripping Lei apart.

"She passed through the eye of Eywa. I am tired of hearing the same thing from you." Lei raised the intensity of her voice. Her and Hantu had been arguing over the span of an hour.

"She was not born Na'vi, Lei. They are not one of us and you need—" Hantu immediately stopped talking when Neteyam had stepped foot into the hut.

"How do you know?!" Lei shouted before a deafening silence rang out into the hut.

"Awani told me to look for you." Neteyam said plainly, his eyes appeared puffy and red. He looked to Hantu, his expression hardened. "I need you to stop talking about my family."

Hantu stood in an awkward position, unsure of what to say. Lei sucked in a frustrated breath while she rushed out of the room, her shoulder brushing Neteyam's.

Her attitude displayed through her stride as she bounced through the village. The audacity Hantu possessed shocked Lei every single time, constantly overstepping boundaries.

And Lei was sure the 2 were arguing or fighting at the moment, but that wasn't her problem. Her mouth curled up into a smug smile when she realized Hantu finally got what was coming to him.

"Why're you making that face?" Lahar amusingly queried as he stepped into his sister's view.

Lei simply shook her head as she snickered to herself. "Where is Awani?"

Lahar shrugged. "I was with Lo'ak."

A small simper of satisfaction appeared into Lei's face, Lahar had loosened up. "Stop making that face!" Lahar expressed jokingly as he leant down and grasped a ball of mud — beaming it at Lei.

The ball of mud splatted onto Lei's abdomen. "You skxawng!" She hissed as she hastily searched for mud to throw.

When she failed to retaliate against her brother she bounded towards him. He turned away from her as she yanked him by his tail onto the ground. Lei pressed her body weight onto Lahar's back to keep him pinned on the ground.

The 2 siblings belly laughs were heard throughout the village as they wrestled, smothering mud on each other's faces and bodies.

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Lei were sat by her self in her hut, weaving string together to form a bracelet for her mother. She had decided to skip the last meal of the day to surprise her.

She listened to the night calls of the animals of pandora, her ears cocked to her left — the entrance of her hut. She had realized a Na'vi was approaching her hut, she panicked and hid the unfinished project behind her back.

Neteyam stepped foot into her hut, standing in the entryway with an awkward demeanor. "I'm sorry." He pitifully mumbled.

Lei slowly returned the unfinished bracelet back into her lap. She pondered in her head — thinking hard about what he could be apologizing for. "Did you and Hantu speak?" She asked while shifting her focus back onto her mother's unfinished surprise.

"We did."

Lei's eyebrows perked into a surprised expression. "That is new."

Neteyam impatiently awaited for her to say something, he observed her quick hand movements as she weaved the bracelet.

"What do you want?" She finally asked.

Neteyam slightly lifted a shoulder. For the first time Lei took her eyes off of the bracelet and looked at Neteyam. Her sluggish gaze trailed from his face down to his feet, anticipating for him to speak again.