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Taway'na has always been an anomaly in Awa'atlu. She was not born among the reef clans, yet she lives with them. Her origins are discussed in whispers, her lineage left deliberately vague. She learns the customs, follows the rules, and keeps her questions to herself.
The arrival of the Sully family changes the rhythm of the village. New faces, new stories, and new expectations circulate through Awa'atlu, bringing comparisons Taway'na cannot escape. People begin to look at her differently - not with hostility, but with curiosity she did not ask for.
Small inconsistencies begin to surface. Records do not match memories. Stories about the past shift depending on who tells them. Taway'na realizes that parts of her history were not simply forgotten, but intentionally left out.
Everything shifts the day she overhears a conversation never meant for her, a name she recognizes, spoken alongside hers, tied to an event in the forest years before her arrival at the reef