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"THAT IS crazy! how did you even survive!"

aia exclaims laughing

for the past hours loak has been with aiä after his semi ranting she asked him to tell her more about him and his clan(s)

and loak had gotten to see aiä smile and laugh a lot more in those few hours together

he was smiling and laughing for the first time in a while

right now he was telling her about the time when anoung and his friends left him outside the reef

"when I woke up I was lying down on something and it was a tulkun, his name is payakan, he is my spirit brother now, he saved my life."
loak says smiling at the thought

" wow! that is a some story, so how do tulkun look like?"
aiä says wanting to know more

" they are huge, and well we sign to them and they know what we are saying!"
loak responds

"that is so amazing, here we ovbiously have like zero sea creatures."

" yeah I also had to learn how to tame ilu but it was easy compared to when I had to tame my ikran."

"oh! how was that like, I know ikran are also very big?"
aiä asks intrigued

"oh my gosh, it was horrible I was so scared I had to do all of this training and then when the day finally came, I swear aiä I was going to cry!"

loak exclaims almost embarassed of telling her that

aiä begins to laugh

" I was about to slip because we have to cross the waterfall and I was the last one ti tame mine because I was so scared but I tried hiding it!"

loak and aiä are laughing holding their stomachs

loak sighs as he stops laughing looking at aiä sitting infront of him

looking at the way she smiles and her dimples showing and eyes shining

finally aiä notices the stares on her and makes eye contact with him

" loak im glad I was able to learn more about you, your a very interesting and very funny guy."
aiä says laughing a little as she speaks
" I've enjoyed spending time with you, but I think it is time to go back home"
aiä stands up and gives her hand to help loak get up

as he is getting up he end up tripping on his feet and falls on his bottom

loak and aiä laughs lightly before aiä goes over to him

" are you okay? here let m-"
aiä is interupted by a yell

"LOAK!"

she and loaks heads turn around loak still know the ground

and its jake, his dad and axkä still. walking up the steps

"Loak! where have you been boy! you were meant to be home hours ago, I told you!"
he's scolding his son, yanking him up from the ground harshly by the arm

"mr.sully it is my fault we lost track of ti-"
aiä starts but doesn't finish as jake interupted her

" you! do not interfer with, who knows what you could have done to him, stay away from my son!"
jake pointing at aiä

aiä is taking aback from his words

done to him?

"woah woah, hey I told you I'd help you find them but not yell at my sister, remember we are the ones helping you here, we can easily kick you out anytime, don't speak to her like that again!"

axkä says irriated at jake sully

"w-what dad no nothing happe-"
loak tries to defend aiä but jake won't let him as he tugs him away

now it's just aiä and axkä one confused the other angry

"are you alright sister?"

"y-yeah it's just, I...I don't know why he was-"

"because aiä I told you, they only ever talk bad about us, they think hat we will hurt them or something, I mean you heard eleyìng! sometimes we try our hardest to prove something but it never happens, remember they thought that if they stopped interacting with the other clans then maybe they could tell we didn't mean any harm, but I guess not."

axkä says wholeheartedly

" are we monsters? do you think that people are afraid of us because of.."
aiä asks with her sad eyes

axkä just sighs and pulls her into a hug

" we will talk with mother and father, don't worry."

aiä doesn't respond or nod to anything just thinking about the situation

"did loak think I was going to hurt him?"

her thoughts overtaking

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