Prologue

the forest of pandora holds many dangers... but the most dangerous thing about pandora is that you may grow to love her too much"

"Lie si oe neteyamur
Nawma Sa'nokur mรฌfa oeyรค-"

"We sing the songcords to remember, each bead a story in our life"

"-Atanti ngal molunge
Mipa tรฌreyti, mipa 'itanti-"

Jake stands surrounded by na'vi holding hands, and singing. while he lifts a baby in the air

"A bead for the birth of our children "

"Neteyam" he cheers the others repeating after him.

"-Zola'u nรฌprrte', ma Kiri
Ngati oel munge soaiane-"

Jake and Neytiri are each holding a baby, a little girl sitting between them
"Mama, can I hold one of them?"
Neytiri looks at her husband who shrugs
"they are asleep now little Tyane'nor, later, so you do not wake them up" The girl pouts but nods

"-Lie si oe atanur
Pรคhem parul, ti'ongokx ahuta
Lawnol a mรฌ te'lan
Lawnol a mรฌ te'lan"

"A bead for the first commune with eywa"
Jake and Neytiri connect Neteyam and Kiri to the spirit tree for the first time, surrounded by the people of the clan

"the people say we live in eywa, and eywa lives in us; the great mother holds all her children in her heart"

"-Ma Eywa, ma Eywa"

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"Happiness is simple"

Neytiri runs around flapping her arms like an ikran.

"Who knew a jarhead like me could crack the code"

Kiri and Neteyam run from their dad who is splashing water at them while Tyane'nor is sitting on her mother's lap, laughing.

~~~

The whole family was all huddled together under a tree

"When I first met your father I was trying to kill him," Neytiri says as her children laugh.
"It was love at first sight" Jake answers, burying his face in her neck.

"before I knew it we had five"

~~~

"When the sky people left some of them stayed; science people loyal to the na'vi"

Jake, who is wearing Tsu'tey neckpiece in respect, and Neytiri and other Omitkaya warrior standing guard on foot and atop a dire horse as the sky people are getting onto the ships to go back to earth

~~~

"and then there was Spider"

A human baby runs half-naked through the lab

"He was just stuck here; too young to be put in a cyro capsule"

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"Orphaned by the war, he was raised by the lab guys"
"Spider take your spare" Norm yells as Spider runs out of the lab
"I'm just going to the village" he yells back

"He wasn't a part of our family, he was like a stray cat just always around, inseparable from our kids"

Spider hissed at Kiri and she hissed back and he continued to play with the Sully children.
Jake and Neytiri watching from a distance

"To Neytiri, he would always be alien; one of them"

"His place is with his kind," She said as she turned to her husband

~~~

"IT'S MINE! "
"I HAD IT FIRST! "
"WHY Would I LET YOU HAVE IT!"

"It took a few years to get the language threw my thick skull"

"IT'S MINE! "
"NO, IT'S MINE! "
"LO'AK YOU, LIAR! LET IT GO! "
Tyane'nor looks at her younger siblings trying to figure out what the fight is about

"But now when I hear it, might as well be English"

"I HATE YOU!"
"I HATE YOU TIMES INFINITY, LO'AK! PENIS FACE!"
Tyane'nor gasped "Kiri!!"
"HEY! That's enough don't make me come over there" Jake finally intervened

~~~

"Like this brother"
Jake watched as Tyane'nor gently adjusted Neteyam's hold of the bow, just like he taught her before
"look, there's one close to the rocks" She pointed, and Neteyam released the arrow catching the fish.
Neteyam brought the fish to show it to his dad, and he chuckled "Neteyam the mighty fisherman, wow that's a big one"
They both squealed in delight and high-fived "By the rocks just like you said" he told his sister smiling at her

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"How tall is he?" Lo'ak asked as Jake measured Neteyam against a tree
"He's this tall" Jake answered pointing to a line he carved in the tree
"Look Neteyam you're almost as tall as me," Tyane'nor said pointing to a line where Jake carved her high

"Time goes by too fast; like a dream"

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"Come here Tyane'nor " Jake motions his daughter forward "You see how hard your mother is working; taking care of you and your siblings. don't you think she deserves a break? well, I prepared a surprise for her but someone needs to take care of your siblings. can you do that for me?"
Jake smiles when he sees his daughter nodding eagerly

"Happiness IS simple; Like date nights time away from the kids "

Neytiri let out cries of happiness as she and Jake rode their ikran through the night skies both of them laughing through it all

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"But the thing about happiness, it can vanish in a heartbeat. A new star in the night, that could only mean one thing; Ships landing, the sky people have returned".
As the ships descend, the fire from their motors devoured everything in its wake; Animals, Trees, All of it.
And Neytiri wept when she saw the destruction the sky people have caused yet again to her beloved forest, to her home.
~~~
22/4/2023

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