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IV

It had been a good amount of time since eclipse.

The fishermen and hunters had retired for the day and the homemakers had only just put their food above the fires to prepare a nice warm dinner. The younger children were done with their lessons and were headed home, eagerly looking forward to a delicious meal followed by some much needed sleep.

But then they saw the warriors hurriedly mount their banshees and head out with panicked urgency. Not a moment later and Tonowari's own children joined them to patrol the waters around the reef. The sudden and rare search party caused an eruption of speculative whispers amidst the villagers, each one trying their best to decipher what was going on.

Betwixt all the chaos, Y/N exhaled a sigh of relief when she spotted Lo'ak swimming toward her, calling out her name in response to her calling out his.

"I'm here Y/N" he waived his arm at her as she closed the distance between them whilst siting atop her ilu.

"I got you" she held out her arm for him to take, pulling the heavier boy to sit behind her before she turned around, yelling out to the other Na'vi who were just as eagerly looking for him "I've found him, he's okay!"

A stream of yips and relieved sighs were passed around as everyone headed back, thankful to Ewya that the kid was returned to them unharmed.

"I'm sorry about my brother" Y/N immediately said once Lo'ak was well seated behind her, legs dangling lazily in the water as they followed the other people back to the village.

"I'm sorry about mine too" Lo'ak responded, referring to the exchange his brother had with her earlier that day "he's not usually like this"

"Don't worry about-"

"No really," he continued nonetheless, still not done with his apology on behalf of his brother. Lo'ak never imagined in all his years that he'd one day find himself apologising for how his perfect older brother acted "he was rude and what he said, it-it was not okay. I'm sure he didn't mean any of it. Don't take it to heart and hold anything against him, or at least against me because of it"

Y/N held back a giggle. As sweet as it was that he was trying to be an adult and say sorry for the comments Neteyam made, it was almost adorable how he couldn't conceal his child-like desire for her to keep her animosity toward his brother on one side and away from him. In simpler words, he was trying to get her to continue being friends with him.

"I'm not mad anymore Lo'ak" she assured the boy with a genuine smile, patting his knee in a friendly way "not at Neteyam, and definitely not at you"

"Friends again?" He sheepishly asked and Y/N found it almost too difficult not to turn around and adoringly pinch his cheeks with an 'aww' but she kept her cool. Just like Aonung, she could tell that Lo'ak definitely did not like to be fawned over.

"Friends again" she warmly told the boy before clicked her tongue at the ilu, prompting him to stop.

Both her father and mother awaited them, standing at the front of the crowed gathered to have a look at the lost and found forest boy.

Y/N's eyes found Aonung's and she could tell he was relieved that Lo'ak was fine. She knew he'd messed up by doing something as stupid as going beyond the reef by himself and then made things even worse by taking the new boy out there too and leaving him.

As if they shared some sibling-telepathic connection, she could also sense how horrible he felt. It was true that he'd managed to publicly embarrass himself, knowing well that the gossip regarding how the chie's son caused such mayhem would last for a good amount of time before it was forgotten; but what really stuck out in that moment was the extremely evident remorse in his eyes.