your eyes • atwow

N I N E T E E N

ELEYING TOOK loak to a hut far away from the clans center.

"What is this? I've never seen it."
loak asked eleying

"When you got a tour they didn't show you this part, it's known as Cificä. It means peace of water."

"Why not? I mean why didn't we find out about this place?"
Loak wondered

"It's a sacred place of our clan, it is where they give ceremonies and such important things."

Loak looked amazed at the scenery infront of him.

"Not being rude or anything but your family arriving wasn't known or special per se to us. It was also the ceremony of the aiä and her brothers, communing with Eywa."

"I guess that the leaders of your clan are very important?"

"Extremely, we people never will or have gone against the leaders wishes."

Loak simply nodded

" Uh I could help but notice that you and aiä are very close?" He mentioned as he scratched the back of his head

" We have known each other since we were just kids, and well when you hang out with a pretty girl like her you tend to do anything to get her attention."

" So you like her?"

Eleying stopped in his tracks and faced loak

" You are very nosy do you know that?"
Eleying said as he smiled at Loak

Loak's mouth opened slightly not knowing what to say

" But i guess you could say that, ask any boy of our age in the clan guarantee you more than half will say they've taken a liking to aiä."

"Is she mated to anyone?" Loak hesitated to ask but still did, he was very curious of wanting to know more about the clan, more specifically aiä

" No, and it's unlikely for her to be set up to mate. Anyways down here is for the Oleyktan and his family, and trusted ones."

"When was the last time there was a special ceremony?"

" It was... uh I actually don't remember. But we should go now."

They begin to walk up back to the main area, leaving the sacred place.

As they were walking a small but heard shout

"Eleying! Come it is Aiä!" Shouted one of aiä's brothers.

Eleying grabbed Loak's attention as a sign to follow him.

Aia's eyelids fluttered open, revealing the dimly lit interior of the healing tent. The soft glow of bioluminescent plants cast gentle shadows on the woven walls. Her body ached.

The sound of hurried footsteps drew her attention. Before she could fully grasp her surroundings, two familiar faces burst into the tent. Lo'ak and Eleying, their expressions a mix of worry and joy, rushed to her side. Lo'ak's eyes were wide with concern as he knelt beside her.

"Aia, you're awake," her father whispered, his voice trembling with emotion. "We were so worried."

"You weren't waking up, are you alright?"

"Here, here have some juice!" Said quickly her mother

"I-...I am fine ma.. just a bit sore and a headache." As Aiä said this the family noticed the side of her head, her temple had quite a big bruise.

"Get some rest sweetie, come now." Gestured sazari

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I want to apologize for not updating as i said i was going to. Being honest i have had zero motivation to write chapters because im lazy. But i am working on more chapters and i do plan on finishing this book. I want to thank you for the 10k reads on this book, i honestly never thought that many people would read this book. But i will be updating more hopefully. Also i have another avatar fic in the making lmk if you guys would read that.