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planet earth

The darkness has swallowed the village completely as it was late at night and everyone was fast asleep in their Marui. However Leyra couldn't close an eye tonight, so she sat at the beach like she always does when she couldn't sleep and listened to the ocean.

The waves were crashing against the stones in the distance and birds were chirping silently while flying above the ocean. It's refreshing when there is no noice and screaming from the people of her clan and the voice of the ocean calmed her down.

A light breeze from the wind blows through her hair and the coldness of it leaves goosebumps on her blue skin. She felt the sand under hair fingertips as she drew lines into it and the sky was studded with stars, all kind of planets and moons.

Leyra heard light footsteps on the sand behind her but she couldn't care less to turn around. The person sat beside her on the sand.

"Why are you up?" Jake Sully asked her and looked at her concerned. He liked the girl like his mate Neytiri does and he noticed the strange behavior of his sons around her too. He felt like he had to protect her even though she isn't his own child.

"I couldn't fall asleep, and you?" she answered with a quiet voice and stared to the ocean, where the waves are becoming rougher with each minute.

"Yeah, me too." He said.

They sat in silence for a quite amount of time, enjoying the atmosphere.

"Can I ask you something?" Leyra broke the silence.

"Of course. Ask away." He simply responded.

"Do you sometimes miss home?" Jakes was confused for a second with what she meant by home.

"I mean earth." She clarified.

Jake needed to think about that question. He wasn't sure, because Pandora was his home now but he lived for years on earth.

"Sometimes, I guess." He answers truthfully. "I had a brother, a twin, on earth but he died early. He should have been here on Pandora, not me. His death gave me the opportunity to take his Avatar to be here and I often feel guilty. He could have had the life I live now."

Leyra listened to him carefully and was thankful that he shared his life story with her, with a stranger. It is freeing to talk with someone about the past without being judged right away.

"But I'm also really thankful. I was paralyzed as a human. I couldn't walk because I got shot in a mission for the army. I was so happy on my first day in my Avatar body. I couldn't believe I could feel my legs and walk, even run." He continued and a smile formed on his face at the memory of his first day on Pandora. Leyra was grateful that Jakes dream of walking again came true.

"My dad was human too." Leyra said after a few seconds of silence. "He told me he was in the Avatar program in the forest. You might have known him. He met my mother here in the Metkayina clan, because he was hiding due to the war the sky people had started. He didn't wanted to be apart of it."

"You are talking about him in the past. What happened?" he asked cautiously, not wanting to pressure her to answer. He could sense it was a sensitive topic for her.

"I- I don't really know. He just left me, when I was a small child. I didn't even know if his conscious was transformed into his Avatar body or not. I have no idea if he is still alive out there." She responded quietly as her emotions were eating her up.

"Why did he left?"

"My mother died when she gave birth to me and it was clear that she would, because the pregnancy was slowly weakening her and my birth was the last straw. I think my father couldn't stand me anymore because I was so similar to her. He said it was my fault that she died." She mumbled on the verge of tears and looked sadly to the sky. Seeing the brightest star, she thought of her mother. She never knew how she looked like or how her character was. She will never forgive herself for taking her mother's life.