Read Me

-Epilogue-

After the funeral of Neteyam Za'ke decided he'd wait a few weeks before proposing to the love of his life; D'ella. Of course the girl had said yes as she'd been just as much in love as he'd been.

It didn't take long for the pair to mate and both families had been thrilled about the ceremony.

D'ella was thrilled she'd finally found her mate but something was wrong. She didn't have an older brother to threaten Za'ke if he'd done something wrong, even though everyone knew he would die before hurting his girl.

D'ella had been told she wasn't aloud to connect to the spirit tree as it was underwater and if she seized she'd drown.

The girl was enraged when they'd buried Neteyam in the sea instead of in the forest as it wasn't what the boy had wanted and she wouldn't be able to visit him when wanted.

That why D'ella had made the stupid decision to sneak out of her now shared mauri with Za'ke and connect to the tree of voices.

In D'ella's mind all that mattered was speaking to her brother one last time and getting his opinion on her mating.

The teen had taken one of the jellyfish that granted oxygen underwater just in case and made her way to the underwater version of her forests tree of souls.

She connected her queue slowly and carefully, wanting nothing to go wrong.

D'ella held in a gasp as her mind was suctioned somewhere else.

-

D'ella walked through a field of flowers as she aprouched a fully grown male omaticaya. "Who are you?" She asked kindly.

When the male turned towards her she finally let out that gasp. "Ma'teyam?!" She said.

"It's good to hear that beautiful voice of yours Ma'ella!" He spoke with a smile.

D'ella grinned ear to ear as she stood on her tippy toes so she could throw her arms around her now much older brother.

D'ella cried into the shoulder of  her missed brother as he rubbed circled into her back like he did when they where little and she'd have nightmares while their parents where out on 'date night'.

A grown Neteyam pulled away from his sobbing sister and began to speak. "You don't need to cry little sister, I'm always right here next to you." He said.

D'ella's eyebrows furrowed. "What do you mean teyam? You died!" She said angrily. She was angry she would never get to properly hold him again, or do anything like they used too.

"You know what you have to do D'ella." He said sternly, wanting her to listen to his words.

Before D'ella could say anything her body was shot through the air and he mind was punched back into her body, away from Neteyam.

-

D'ella gasped as she resurfaced in the ocean. She coughed as much as she could to get the water she'd breathed in, out of her lungs.

Before D'ella could swim back down to make the connection again a body surfaced next to her. Relizing who and what it was D'ella began to sob as she called an ilu so she could bring her brother to the small island that surrounded the magical tree.

As D'ella lay her brother down like she'd seen before she got flashbacks, seeing the now healed scar on Neteyam's chest brought her back from a panic attack and before she knew it their bodies where covered in Atokirina. Pure souls. Seeds of their tree of voices back home.

D'ella, with pupils now blown began to chant as the seeds flashed like a heart beat. The soft seeds floated like waves, back and forth, away and towards the singing girl.

D'ella held out her palm as a blue seed dropped into her hand. The seed was an off color and it seemed to be weak and it wasn't floating very well and its glow was flickering like a broken light.

D'ella in a trance like state crushed the dying seed that held her brothers spirit and slammed her hand down onto the unmoving chest of her brother. Her eyes began to glow like the seeds around her, her freckles bleeding into bigger spots and her voice grew louder.

And suddenly, it all stopped.

D'ella's body and features went back to normal, the seeds floated away like they weren't even there to begin with and Neteyams corpse?

Wasn't a corpse any longer.

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