Reality is a nightmare (Tsu'tey love story)

Chapter 9

Mina

Author's pov

Hakguk followed a woman throughout the home tree till they arrived at a nice clearing near the river. "I think this place is the most beautiful. Perfect place to start don't you think?" The woman asked Hakguk. "Yeah it I-" he stopped when he saw a backpack near a rock. "No way!" The woman tilted her head not understanding what he said but she got the jist of it when Hakguk ran over and picked up the backpack.

"My backpack!" It was small in his huge Avatar hands. He unzipped it and smirked when he saw all the contents within the backpack were safely protected by the ziplock bag. "Ahhh ziplock bags how you work wonders!" He reached in and grabbed the ziplock back containing his notepad full of sketches. "Come." He beckoned towards the woman.

She walked over and sat down next to Hakguk. "These are my drawings." He handed her the tiny notepad and she flipped it open. She gasped seeing the wonderful sketches of their plants and indigenous wild life. She then saw a picture of a thantor. "You escaped a thantor!?" Hakguk scratched his neck a bit. "Yeah that's how I ended up being found by Neytiri in a sense. We got chased down through the forest." The woman stood up and pulled Hakguk up with her.

"You must share this story with the children tonight!" Hakguk seemed a little uneasy but he agreed. "Come let's head back now to find leaves." Hakguk tilted his head in confusion. "To make paper." He makes a small "oh" sound and they head off. Tsu'tey was right on their tail just observing them.

After a few minutes or so of searching the woman grabs a huge leaf and places it on the ground. "So Mina how exactly do you make paper?" The woman now identified as Mina smirked and grabbed a rock. "Simple." She started scraping the leaf with the rock.

Hakguk simply watched then he pulled out his notebook and started sketching the scene before him. A beautiful Na'vi woman with long black hair scraping at a leaf. He tried to capture the emotions on Mina's face. She looked concentrated, her muscles flexed a bit from time to time and she would bite her lower lip occasionally.

Once she finished she gave the leaf(paper) to Hakguk who studied it. "Wow...it feels just like a canvas." Mina wiped her hands and stretched. She noticed the sketch on the tiny notepad and soon a blush erupted on her face. "Why did you sketch me?" Hakguk looked over with a bored expression. "You looked hard a work. That is beautiful and I want to capture all the beauty."

She looked down at her lap with a faint smile on her lips. "Can I tell you something?" Hakguk puts the paper in his backpack then he looks over and nods. "Come." They both stood up and looked around. Mina grabbed Hakguk's hand and led him away. Tsu'tey stepped out from a bush and watched them go.

"Odd?" He looks at the ground and begins to follow their footprints.

After an hour or so of walking in silence Mina led Hakguk to a meadow of sorts. There was a pond in the middle and all around there was huge trees and exotic looking plants. "Wow." Mina sat down with her feet in the pond so Hakguk followed her lead. "Alright this may sound weird." Hakguk pulled out the notepad and began to sketch.

"Why?" Just because he was drawing that didn't mean he wasn't paying attention. "You see here...men aren't that..sensitive." Hakguk glanced at Mina with a look of confusion. "Explain." Mina sighed and grabbed a flower near by. "As in they don't pay attention to the beauty around them. They don't care for such things." Hakguk bit his lip in concentration. "All they care about is hunting and impressing women."

Hakguk stopped sketching for a bit suddenly remembering Earth. "So it's rare and weird to just see you sketching me because you find hard work beautiful." Hakguk looked at her then he grinned. "You may think that way but I don't know...there is something about capturing raw hard work beautiful. It's just if you think about it beauty lays within the eye of the beholder. Beauty doesn't have to be looks it can also be dedication and struggles."

Mina tucked a strand of hair behind her ear as a light purple dusted her blue cheeks. "I am not here to capture just the natural beauty that anyone can clearly see. I'm here to capture the dedication everyone here puts into their work because that itself is the most beautiful thing I have ever seen...I didn't see much of that on Earth. No blue skies...and anyone who worked looked dead." Mina looked at the pond sorrowfully. "But here...anything you all do you do it with pride and with a wide smile on each of your faces. It warms my heart."

Hakguk grabbed his notepad and began to sketch again as if nothing happened. Tsu'tey looked down at the ground after hearing Hakguk's little speech. For some odd reason he was more determined so show Hakguk his world from the rawest perspective. "Anyway we should go back!" Hakguk got up and began to walk away but Mina stood in his path and pushed him into the pond with a smile on her face.

Hakguk resurfaced with a playful glare on his face. "Aren't you funny?" Mina smirked proudly but she yelped when Hakguk stood up and pulled her into the pond. She resurfaced and splashed Hakguk who was laughing loudly. "Very funny." He faked a gasp and soon a splash war began with the two. Tsu'tey looked away then he got up and trudged back to the hometree. It took an hour to head back but once he was there he saw Jake struggling to climb a direhorse.

He rolled his eyes and walked over to his direhorse,he climbed on it and rode off to gather his hunting party since they needed meat for dinner. Once he did that they were about to take off when they saw Jake fall off the direhorse with Neytiri laughing behind him.

He rode over and looked at Jake with a look of disgust. "You should go away." Jake wiped the mud off his face with a huff. "Nah you'd miss me too much. I knew you could speak English." Tsu'tey rolled his eyes and faced Neytiri. "This alien will learn nothing. A rock sees more." Neytiri stifled a small giggle but she does agree. Tsu'tey rides off and Neytiri faces Jake.

"Again."