I see you, Tsu'tey

Chapter 6

It took me a few days before I could face Grace again, I knew what happened at the school wasn't her fault but a part of me just couldn't stand to see hers or any other RDA member's face. Not only did I need to process what I saw but I also needed to think about what actually happened to me. The old Na'vi told me I had a vision of the past, a gift from Eywa he called it. It didn't feel like a gift, it felt more like a curse. I didn't want to see little children being massacred, and only Eywa knows what else would trigger my visions.

When I finally ran into Grace again I threw my arms around her and sobbed, after my isolation I realised that what I really needed was some physical comfort and soothing words. This wasn't something I could get through on my own.

"Where have you been, kid?" Grace had muttered into my hair after she returned the hug. "You worried me when you ran off like that, almost had to bring Quaritch on you to bring you back."

"I met someone out there, a Na'vi. His name is Atxa, he's really old." Awa confessed with slightly reddened cheeks from her violent sobbing. She considered herself very lucky that a Na'vi had chosen to show himself to her and talk to her. He was kind to her, soothing her worries and reassuring her that it's okay and that she couldn't have possible changed what she saw.

"A Na'vi spoke to you?" Grace asked surprised, out of all the things she expected Awa to have run into in the forest a Na'vi wasn't one of them. Especially an old one.

"Yes" Awa confirmed with a proud look on her face. "I talked to a Na'vi"

"That's surprising, usually they won't reveal themselves to us and if they do it's usually not for good reasons. Relations between the Na'vi and us get worse by the years and that idiot Selfridge is only making it worse." Grace cursed the man in both english and na'vi. She truly hated that man, more than she hated anything else. God help them if the Na'vi actually decide to fight back against what they're doing, the little attacks they have on bulldozers and stray humans are nothing. "I don't remember an Atxa"

"He's really old so I doubt he went to your school, Grace" Awa retorted with a playful grin. "Though I suppose he could have been one of your students, just look at how old you've gotten"

"Excuse you young lady, I am not old." Grace grinned back, not taking offense of the playful words. "Guess you're one of the only people here who've had any interaction with the natives since the school closed" She continued sadly, lost in her memories again. Closing down that school broke her, Awa remarked, having to be degraded from a friend of the Omaticaya to an enemy must be so difficult for her. To be associated with the same kind of people that massacre their people can't be easy.

"You'll see them one day again Grace, I promise you that."Awa swore, holding above her heart and a slightly bowed head. That's the least Grace deserves for all she's done for Awa. She could only imagine the hurt the older woman carried around within her, and to have to look at the person who ordered that attack everyday is something Awa didn't think she could handle. No, Grace was a strong woman. Awa wished she would someday be as strong as her. "Now I need to go train and you need to go stare at some samples."

"There's no other drivers out there right now so you'll have the whole place to yourself" Grace told the other woman with a quick wink before she walked away, leaving Awa standing in the empty corridor by herself.

She shrugged and then walked to the linking room and quickly linked to her Na'vi body after saying her hellos to the workers there. The most underrated people in the whole RDA was the linking technicians, without them this wouldn't be possible. She'd have to remember to bake them a cake or something.