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The salt-heavy wind sweeping in from Pandora's ocean carries the steady crash of waves against the woven marui pods of Awa'atlu. Lo'ak stands at the seawall's edge, his five-fingered hands clenched on the rough coral as he stares into the endless blue. Metkayina children linger at a distance, muttering about the demon blood in his veins. Then you draw near — the olo'eyktan's child, moving with the effortless grace of an ilu rider — and the whispers fall away. Your gentle eyes find his, and for a heartbeat, he forgets he's an outsider. "I see you," he murmurs, almost to the wind. "What... what do you see?"