The way of the blue

Peace

I awoke early the next morning as I wanted to get on with some chores I had. I really wasn't in the mood for lessons..well I wasn't in the mood for Neteyam. I'm sure he meant no harm but I can't get over what he said.. there's something about me? What that I'm weird? believe me I know everyone else picks on me about it but I didn't expect it from him. Perhaps I'm over thinking it..but the way he suddenly just turned cold to me yesterday was a complete mood switch ugh I don't understand.

I walk over to the Little Rock pools, a few other Na'vi greet me as I walk past. I settle down on a rock letting my feet dangle in the pool below as I start tying some rope together to make a new net. To some this may sound boring but for me I quite enjoyed it, the but I've always liked the silence and getting to do something alone. I feel like this was much needed after teaching it can get overwhelming, especially when I wasn't keen on doing it in the first place anyway.

I continued to weave the rope into tight knots as Tsireya soon approached behind me. "Good morning Lèa" she says as she sits next to me, "we've still got lessons to teach, I thought we could give them more lessons on our Ilu today as it seems a bit more fun and they could do with the practice" she smiles at me awaiting my response but I just sit there sighing next to her as I continued to weave.

"Lèa look at me" she says as she grabs my hands, I hesitate for a moment before looking at her "what's wrong.. you were so happy yesterday it was nice to see you come out of your shell. Why has this now suddenly changed? She says endearingly as she tuck stray pieces of hair behind my ear.

"I don't know Reya.. I just want a break." She gave me a look letting me know she didn't believe me, "I don't want to see Neteyam today..I just want space" I whisper. "Did he do something to you? Did he say something bad?" She panics, I just shrug my shoulders in response letting my eyes drop to the floor "I don't know Reya I over think too much ..besides I spent two days with him already I want some alone time" she gives me a knowing smile as she nods "okay I'll get Aon to join me and Rotxo today, don't worry I won't tell anyone where you are" she gives my hands one last comforting squeeze as she walks off.

Neteyam's POV

I waited outside of our pod with my siblings as we had another lesson today, I looked forward to these as I never knew what to expect everyday was different here. Tsireya came walking over with Aon and Rotxo and I immediately noticed her absence, I couldn't help but question "Where's Tálèa?" Tsireya and Rotxo looked at each other before trying to come up with a response, until Aon beat them to it "probably fed up of you forest freak" he said with a laugh. "Aon you Skxawng!" Tsireya hissed "ignore him she's Uhm doing some chores today" she said with a smile but I couldn't help but think what Aon said was true, did I say something wrong yesterday?

We followed them to the beach all calling our Ilu's over, Tsireya had said she wanted us to practice more. I propped myself onto Züri's back as I got her to dive through the water slicing through it so easy. We raced our way through the water as I was now fully learning how to stay on properly as I got to know Züri more.

Táléa's POV

After some time I had finished weaving the fishing net handing it over to some other Na'vi to fold. I decided I wanted to go for a swim to collect some shells so I could make a new necklace. I dove straight in from the rock I sat on entering my peaceful realm, I said it before but I love it down here it feels so freeing.

I calmly swim along all the corals trying to find some nice shells I liked, a lot of shells had different meanings, their colours standing for different things. White was always my favourite as it resembled love along with a light blue that beautifully matched the sea, light blue stood for peace. Love and peace, I felt like those two words summed me up the most hence why I often wore those colours. I loved incorporating broken shells into my hair and beads that my mum made me, she would always make sure they were my favourite colours.