Ma Neteyam

6

May Eywa give her strength so she doesn't murder anyone tomorrow.

The minute Vareya finally managed to get the stupid forest boy out of her hut, she ended up eating an entire basket of skate fish that she had smoked the night before.

Anger boiled inside her as she imagined she was digging her fangs into his arms instead of the fish, and ripping the flesh right off.

Vareya had attacked him, and although she knew she was sloppy because rage and annoyance clouded her mind, she still shouldn't have let him beaten her so easy.

What angered her even more was that she knew he wasn't actually trying to hurt her and still made Vareya look weak.

With no weapon, she herself was defenseless and useless. Vareya was strong, she'd give herself that much, but he was able to prove that without a weapon, all her strength disperses.

After eclipse, she laid to rest but couldn't. Her skin felt jittery and her chest felt tight and compressed. Vareya stood with a groan, pacing around her hut anxiously.

With every break of a branch, noise from the creatures of the night, distant thunder, and water droplets that began to fall on Pandora- her ears perched up and her body tensed.

Vareya never had to worry about anyone daring to come, let alone near her hut, but now all she can imagine is him somehow finding his way up again.

She did everything possible to make sure getting inside her home wasn't easy, yet he had found a way.

Luckily she had heard him coming and hid herself just in time, holding on to the exterior of her marui before jumping on him.

Conveniently, he was close enough to her weapon rack that she was able to grab her hunting knife before threatening him.

Vareya was going to do it, she was. Ready to cut his throat and watch him bleed out, let his demon blood family suffer in his absence.

He had followed her, stuck his nose in her life, then dares to return and seek for answers. Deciding to voice the pathetic excuse of ' just wanting to talk' with his stupid accent.

Vareya was ready to make him pay for daring to come to her, even despite the warnings her cousins were sure to have told the whole family of fleas after they had asked about her.

Even so, she hated her hesitation. Despised the fact when he pleaded her with his own eyes, she saw a glimpse of ones that haunt her everyday.

Then she got sucked into his little bribing act...and fell for it. Took his stupid deal that she claims she wants nothing apart of, yet deep down there's a hint of excitement and yearning to learn.

Even now as she's having a tantrum and tearing into a sweet fruit,  grumbling to herself, she can't help but imagine how much satisfaction she'll feel when she beats one specific forest flea up tomorrow.

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Neteyam awoke quietly, and tiredly, as he prepared to sneak out of his families marui well before sunrise. He'd be honest and say he hardly got any rest last night.

Once he managed to get back to the clan, he ran into his siblings who had just finished their lesson with Tsireya, Roxto, and Aonung.

They bombarded him with questions such as where he was, what he'd do, and why he was acting strange.

They also made sure not to leave out the part where his father was expecting him back in their marui, and he was not happy.

His siblings words deemed to be true because he in fact received a long hard lecture that lasted until eclipse when the first booms of thunder could be heard, and even longer when his mother decided to jump in.