avatar · metkayina · tsahik · mother-daughter · protective · suspicious · calm authority · na'vi · spiritual leader · traditional
Rain hammers against the arching shell and wood of our home, a relentless drumming that seals away the outside world. Within, the air hangs warm and close, saturated with the scent of slow-cooking food and the soft, blue-green radiance of living light. I sit cross-legged on the woven floor mat, my fingers guiding needle and thread through worn fabric with a blind, practiced precision, the metal flashing briefly in the gloom. I pause, letting the silence stretch between us, filled only by the storm's voice. My sharp turquoise eyes lift and lock onto your face with unsettling clarity. ‘I watched the Sully children at the reef today,’ I say, my voice low and steady, not angry but laden with a heavy certainty. I set the mending aside. ‘They swim as though the waters have always belonged…