Avatar: {Hybrid and Alien]

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When Layontsin returned and explained to the clan leaders what happened, they were not pleased.

"You did WHAT!?" The tsahik, Unil'tingai, said with outrage and fury. "Mother, I beg that you forgive me." Layontsin said to her, bowing her head down to emphasize her apology. "I was very clear that he or any skypeople shall not set a single foot on the sacred place to taint it! What happened that made you disobey the rules? Even worse, bringing him on your own!" The tsahik said, still furious about what they have heard. Even Rai'uk was in utter disbelief and indignation after he heard what has happened, pacing around the hut. Layontsin looked over at the body of Asim, which was laid down in the center of the hut still unconscious and limp. Once in a while she saw some of his limbs twitch and his face frown while eyes closed as his body trembled weakly. This made her realize that he was still alive, but could not wake up in any way and needed help quickly if something were to happen.

Layontsin looked at both the clan leaders, with resolve in her eyes as she stared straight at them, and spoke. "I know I have done something that was wrong. Something that I admit and will not deny. But you have to hear me when I say this; Asim needed answers. Even from afar, I watched him carefully. And I have seen that his heart was in so much pain. Because he doesn't know why he has been spared when he should have died. I don't know if before he was evil or something else, but from what I have seen from him is that he is anything except tainted. He is pure, like the na'vi that live in the forest. Sure, he is a skyperson that does not belong here in our home. Yet he has shown that he cares about others that would normally be his enemy. Even me, when I tried to kill him the first time. Asim had many chances to kill me before just because he hated me, but as time went on he accepted me and the na'vi." Layontsin explained to them, letting her words flow out from her mouth like she hasn't done before. Which surprised her when she was done speaking.

This also surprised the clan leaders when they heard what Layontsin said to them. The tsahik let out her breath as she closed her eyes and thought about it. "My dear....even if it was to help him...what you have done, is still wrong. Things like these, are delicate, and as a tsahik, I need to make sure that the decision I make has to be the right one for everyone. Including the skyperson AsimAngus. I am not saying that I do not trust him. I do, the same as you do now, as I have seen him and his friends. What I am saying...is that the time for him to seek the answers in his heart aren't now when he is in such desperation." Unil'tingai said to Layontsin, looking up at her with a more calmed down, but still serious, facial expression. Layontsin looked down in shame as she was saddened by what the tsahik had said. Later he looked back at the unconscious body of Asim. "Then...what do we do now? We have to find a way to help him recover." Layontsin said, turning back to the clan leaders.

"I will try to make a medicine that will help him wake up." Unil'tingai said, moving to reach out for the medicinal herbs and the pots. However, Rai'uk moved and held a hand to his mate. "No. We do not know if our medicine will work or would poison him more. It is better that the healer of his kind comes here. He knows more than us." The clan leader said to the tsahik. Unil'tingai desisted from making the medicine and nodded. "I will go and send a messenger to Asim's skypeople village so that they may come here and bring him back to their home." Rai'uk said to them before stepping out of the hut and leaving. Layontsin watched the clan leader leave before looking back at Asim's still unconscious body. Some time passed before she felt the tsahik's hand be placed on one of her shoulders. The anthro thanator looked back at her with a still saddened face, expressing her worry she had for Asim's current condition. "Tell me what exactly happened...when he touched the tree of voices?" Unil'tingai asked her.

Layontsin closed her eyes, trying to remember what happened before and during the time before Asim fell unconscious. "He said...that when one of his fingers touched...he heard everyone. The ancestors. Asim could hear them all around him. The hands of Asim...they acted like tsaheylu. It was impressive, as he only touched it once and didn't need to hold on to it like we do..." Layontsin explained to Unil'tingai. The tsahik looked back at Asim and carefully reached out to pick up one of his small hands, examining it. They seemed normal, with only some dents and markings that represented folding crevices. "Strange...I don't see anything that would indicate a method of connecting" the tsahik said, placing the hand of the skyperson down gently again. "Maybe it's something that we cannot see. Like...magic perhaps. Eywa can do that to others, right?" Layontsin asked as she went over closer to Asim's body and reached to pick up the small hand like Unil'tingai did. The hand of Asim felt cold and limp, like the rest of his body. "I am not sure. Until I can figure a way to find for sure, we will wait until he wakes up." Unil'tingai said to Layontsin, moving to another place to find some other medicine that could help.

While the tsahik was busy, Layontsin continued to watch over the unconscious body of the skyperson. She thought about the ability that he now had, thinking of how he could hear the voices in the sacred trees easily as if he had the power to make a bond. It was not to forget how she remembered clearly how he tamed the ikran without making the bond in any known way. If he could do that with his hands...could he connect with anyone? The idea that suddenly made her think like that made the anthro thanator look down at Asim again and then at her two queues on both the sides of her head. She reached to her back and brought forwards her main braid queue, looking at the tip and then at Asim's hand. "What if...I can connect with him?" Layontsin suggested to the tsahik, who looked up at the anthro thanator. "If that happens...I don't know if it will harm him more." Unil'tingai said to her, worried as her gaze went from Asim's hand to Layontsin's exposed small queue tendrils. "There has to be a way to determine if he is alright. This is better than giving him a medicine that could kill him more. Let me try. Please..." Layontsin begged the tsahik, looking at her with a pleading face. The tsahik was thoughtful for a moment before finally nodding. "Alright. Just this once. But if something happens I will personally pull you away from him." Unil'tingai said to her. Layontsin nodded and said, "Thank you, mother," before crouching down and moving even closer to Asim's unconscious body. Once she was close, she pulled her main queue close to his hand and readied to connect the queue to it. The tiny tendrils moved around in search for something to latch on before they wrapped around some fingers and a portion of the palm from Asim's hand. At first Layontsin felt nothing that indicated the bond taking effect on him or on herself. Then she felt a sort of warmth reaching towards her before something abruptly made her feel light-headed and dizzy. Her head began to feel woozy and her senses numbed, her vision blurring as she saw that she was toppling to the side and falling. However, instead of feeling the impact of hitting the warm solid ground, she felt herself be brought into the dark and cold depths of darkness as the outside world faded slowly.

The last thing she heard was Unil'tingai calling her name before she felt the grasp of darkness pull her into nothingness.