your eyes • atwow

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LATER THAT day the sully family had decided to start the rituals and process

     as jake told their family before returning back to the olekytans home
     "The sooner we start the process, the sooner we can leave and go back home,

     "ok, here you all have to sit in order of age and leave a space out for him."

" So it would be jake sully then your mate neytiri, leave this space open for your son then kiri, loak, and finally tuk."

" Um, as we do this quick preparation, tell us more about your son or brother."

" his name is neteyam, 18 years old, he loved riding his ikran back in the forest and when he was little I would take him out to go hunt for fish, he was great at using a bow and arrow just like his mother."
jake says, speaking a bit louder than a whisper

" he always protected all of us, he tried to take the blame whenever I got in trouble, he protected kiri from a fight, and tuk was always with him and he'd never let anything happen to her."
loak says

when loak first started to speak first aiä looked at him in an instance, not having heard his voice before

as loaks head was down, he looked up, and they stared at each other before aiä gave him a small smile

     aiä found loak good-looking, and she wanted to know more about him

     she was born in the cave, and for 14 years, she couldn't leave it, not until she started her warrior training

she had never met anybody from the outside or from other clans, so she wanted to learn more about them

about how his clan is and learn the differences between their clan and hers

" thank you for sharing. Please hold out your hand and then tighten your hand around the rock we give you."
äkra says, walking over to jake and neytiri, giving them each a different colored rock that has crystals on it

aiä walks over and puts one down on the spot of neteyam and gives one to loak as well, their hands touching for a second

axkä giving the rocks to kiri and tuk

once given the rock, they do as said and tighten their hand with the rock

the siblings stand behind the people they gave the rock to

" now just close your eyes, and feel."

aiä places her hand on the place where the neteyam would be sitting and starts chanting a ritual

" akwey akum 'ewan 'aku 'ongokx afpawng si.."

as aiä keeps on repeating the chant, her eyelids begin to get heavier, and finally she in a trance

she looks up and sees she's not in her home but on a rock in the middle of the water

she turns around and sees a body and a crying girl

the body is a boy of a deep shade blue

she recognized the color, and
goes next to him hesitentaly

his breathing has stopped as she looks at her surroundings she notices fire and a ship?

before she can do anything to help him, she has to know the full story of how he passed. She closed her eyes and opened

she gasps, not having done that in a very long time

her brothers giving her a concerned looking asking if she's fine, she nods

she abruptly stands up and walks to the front of the family

" before we can even try to help get him back, we need to know how he died."
aiä says firmly

no one spoke up

"Look, we understand this is hard for you all, but if we don't know how he died then we can't help you!"
axkä says irriated by the fact that they won't comply to the requests

"..I was captured by sky people along with tuk and another girl from the metkayina clan, we were tied to the ship, neteyam was able to help us, but my friend was on the ship and I needed to get him back so I told him I was going and neteyam came along with me, we found my friend spider and we fought some sky people we were cornered for a good minute, they had guns and neteyam had found one and started shouting at them while me and spider jumped off the bridge and then neteyam jumped, me and spider were laughing and hugging then neteyam sa..said he had been shot in the chest, w-w-we were able to get him on a rock and we tried to apple pressure to the wound but he didn't... didn't make it."

loak says with a faint voice, stuttering a few times

"thank you for sharing, this ritual could take some time depending on how much energy we are being consumed of."
äkra says carefully

" how much time?"
jake asks

" we do not know...it is in the hands of eywa."
äkra says

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love triangle????