𝐀𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐧 - 𝐚𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐚𝐫

SIX.

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"What is wrong?"

Neytiri looked between her two eldest daughters, the girls angrily helping their mother make food for tonight. The tension in the room was unbearable, even Jake and Này'kanu watched them from their places outside of the marui.

"Nothing, I'm fine. Why should I not be fine?" Kiri huffed while throwing the food to the ground in front of her mother.

Tìli stayed quiet, watching as their mother began to comfort Kiri. She decided to let them have their moment and got up, quietly taking her leave.

"Why can't I just be like everyone else?" Was the last thing she heard while walking out.

Tìli thought those words daily. Why couldn't she just be a forest na'vi? Why couldn't she look like the rest of her family? Why did people even care so much how others looked; they're all na'vi, Eywa loves them all. She wouldn't have made them the way they were if she didn't.

"Tìli" the girl groaned as she heard the sound of her father from behind her, she didn't want to listen to him right now. She just wanted to go see Sisu.

"Yes sir?" She turned around and faced him, his face cringing when he saw her expression.

"I was thinking.. why don't we go for a ride?" Jake walked up to his daughter, putting his arm around her shoulders while he started to lead her towards the ikran

"I'm not really interested in the water right now, dad"

"Who said anything about the water?"

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"I'm not a baby anymore, I don't need to ride on Bob with you"

Jake rolled his eyes and grabbed his daughter's arm with a death grip, pulling her to sit on the ikran in front of him.

"You're so annoying" Tìli huffed but accepted her fate, getting comfortable on the back of the ikran.

"You love that I'm annoying" Bob flew into the air and kept going up until they got a comfortable distance away from the village.

The two were quiet for a while, just staring out at the sea that seemed to go on for forever. Tìli couldn't lie. It was beautiful. The way the sun set on the horizon and how the colors all mixed together. How every so often if you were lucky you would see a fish jump out of the water.

But it wasn't home.

It wasn't the forest.

And Tìli hated that.

"We need to talk" Jake's voice broke the silence between them

"About?"

"Somethings bothering you, daughter. I can tell, and so can your mother."