your eyes • atwow

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IT HAD been a week straight of doing rituals and finding out what was the best way to be able to relive neteyam

the sully family being in the tsahiks room a lot more lately

loak and aiä had a few interactions with only some words spoken

it was a new day, which means the family had to go with the siblings again

when the family was about to leave the tent, one of the brothers came

it was äkrawutru

"oh? äkrawutru we were just about to head to the tent, is something wrong?"
jake questiones

"no nothing is wrong at all, today it will be different we ant to hear your individual stories about or with neteyam, um so I will take you and kiri, axkä will take neytiri and tuk and loak will be with aiä, is that fine?"

äkrawutru informs the family

jake looks to his kids and mate a bit of worry on his face

scared that his son will be alone with a cave navı

but loak gives his dad a nod, telling him that it's ok and answers to äkrawutru

"yes it is fine."

he nods, and they follow him

they get closer and closer to the tent

"ok neytiri and tuktirey with axkä in there... oh, we must be separated for this, so I will be with you and kiri in my home."

äkrawutru says to the family after seeing their look if confusion

"oh.."

jaks says now even more worried

they walk through another way they have never been before

"This is my home, you two can stay here while I go show your son where aiä is."

jake nods his head and walks in seeing mats on the floor and sits down pulling tuk closer to him

he watches as äkrawutru walks away with his son

even though jake knew that äkrawutru was the nicest out of the three and oldest he still felt worry for what he could do to them

loak was walking next to aiä oldest brother and he felt very short compared to him

but then a thought popped up in his head

he would be alone with aiä

he refocused after almost tripping and realized that they were back in the tompa, but they were going up these stairs made of rock with a lot of trees

" this is tsakerams practice area it's only meant for aiä no one else is allowed in there well unless if your allowed, the clan built it for her, she was only eight at the time when they began to build it for her."

" how old is she now?"
loak asks trying to keep the conversation going

" seventeen, she started using it only a couple years ago when she was fourteen, but she lives it, it is a sacred place for her."
he replies as they come into view with the place

it is hidden and very big filled with lots of lights and things like pots, mixtures, plants, nets
and much more but it looks like a home

" looks like she's still not here, just wait for a little if she doesn't come then just go back to your home."

he says and loak just nods and enters the home made of trees

he looks around but not touching anything and finally decides to sit down cross crossed

he let's out a loud sigh and slouches a little

he sits there for a good few minutes before he hears the trees shuffling and the sound of leaves crunching every once in a while

he turns to where the noise is coming from and sees aiä with a wooden bows in her hands

aiä let's out a sigh

"..hi sorry im late, my father needed me for something and well you know it had completely slipped my mind that is was just going to be you and me but also that it would be here and it takes a while to get all the way up here and ... sorry im rambling.."

aiä says out of breath

loak gives her a small smile
" It's fine, don't worry."

" well then how are you?"

"im doing good I guess."
loak mumbles the last words

"well I hope you do better, but today it will be simple should nit take that long."
aiä says with a smile on her face

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