slayers_desire | exploring new opportunities to improve herself ((tag jake))

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exploring new opportunities to improve herself ((tag jake))

After allowing herself a couple of days of readjusting to having her voices back, April decided to call Jake Sully. She was interested in meeting some of his people, especially the tsahik that he had spoke about. Maybe it was an opportunity to enhance her pyschic gifts, by meeting a race that had their own connection.

Using her PINpoint phone to dial Jake's number, April nervously twirled her hair while it rang.

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Following Jake into the interior of Hometree, April touches the bark to get a sense of her new surroundings. Everything is so beautiful here.

"Do you have only one tree, or many?"

"Hometree's made up of a bunch of trees that grew together, actually. It's a metaphor for the community, how we're stronger together than we are apart."

"Oh wow. It must be wonderful to be part of such a strong community."

"It's definitely a hell of a lot different from Earth," he agrees. "Do you want the tour first, or get straight to business and do that later?"

"Business first, then pleasure?"

"Works for me. I think Mo'at is with the healers right now. This way."

It's a bit of a walk down the wooden spiral, to get to the lower levels where the healers' area is set up. There are a few wounded hunters being tended to that tangled with a sturmbeest, but their injuries are minor in nature. The tsahik is observing their care, and barely glances in Jake's direction when they approach.

The blood of Jake's people smells different than humans. And April can see the injuried of the hunters. Luckily they are all minor injuries, otherwise a part of her would want to help.

"Mo'at," Jake says, to get her attention, and does the greeting gesture. "I See you, tsahik."

"I See you, Jake'Suully," she acknowledges, and looks down at April. "This is the one you spoke of?"

Observing the greeting, April attempts to mimic it. "I See you. My name is April."

"We have never heard of a Sky Person who could See with more than their eyes," Mo'at tells her. "You come to learn?"

"If possible. I have no others to learn from in my world, or my adopted world."

"I do not know what we can teach you," Mo'at says, but walks in a circle around April as if inspecting her for something. "You do not See Eywa the way we do. What do you wish to know first?"

"I would like to experience the way you see Eywa. Maybe your voices could teach me something. Show me something to become stronger."

"We See Eywa all around us, in everything we see, touch, hear, and breathe," Mo'at replies. "How can I show you that which you cannot see with your eyes? You cannot make tsaheylu."

"Maybe watching someone do it, uh, psychically?" Jake suggests.

"I want to open myself to Eywa. See her in spirit and mind. If there is anyway I can connect with her... open my mind I am willing to try."

"We have never done such a thing with a Sky Person before," Mo'at tells her. "Jake'Suully and Grace'Augustine are the only dreamwalkers to pass through the eye of Eywa, and you have no dreamwalker body to join."

"Taking her to the Tree of Souls might be a bit much at first anyway," Jake adds. "Maybe we could start with the small stuff, and work our way up. Like when I was learning to make tsaheylu myself."

"I could show you what I can do. And you could determine if it is worthy of Eywa." April offered. "I do not want to disrespect your culture."

((heading to work for four hours))

"That would be good," Mo'at agrees. "It is difficult to find a single tree in a forest you do not know."

"Do you need anything to, uh, demonstrate on?" Jake asks.

"I will use my abilities that do not need a person. The visions. And then if necessary, I might ask to demonstrate my telepathy if needed."

April closes her eyes and opens her voices to her surroundings. She is looking for something that would be important, or perhaps unknown to others, to demonstrate her abilities.

((let me know if she receives any visions))

Mo'at is difficult to please, as Jake has learned over the last few months, and it will take much evidence to impress her. Both she and Jake sit and wait for April to present her proof.

The visions are few, more of a whisper. An image of the old Hometree, strong and tall, before it fell and burned. A Na'vi woman on the back of an enormous black six-legged beast, pouncing on a large mechanical suit. That same woman, holding a small blue infant in her arms, coming to greet Jake returning from a hunt.

"I see a different Hometree. There is a woman, who rides a six-legged beast, and together they punced on a large mechanical suit."

"That same woman is then holding an infant. And she is waiting to greet you Jake." April opens her eyes to reorient herself.

"Neytiri, on the thanator," Jake says, but he sounds puzzled. "We don't have any kids."

"Then perhaps whatever spirit guides this woman is telling you of some on the way," Mo'at says, not sounding surprised. "The songs tell of Toruk Makto being blessed with many children."

Sensing that Mo'at is not impressed by the vision, April takes a breath. She doesn't want to impose on someone else's mind.

So she sets down her PINpoint on the floor. "I can also do this." And she lifts it with her mind.

Mo'at inspects the floating object, passing her hands under, above, and around it to test that it isn't a trick. But even this has no sense of wonder to her, living on a world where mountains float in the sky on their own. "This Eywa can do also."

"But for a Sky Person?" April gently wonders. She expects the people in Jake's world to be talented with their gifts.

((posted my future-April thread))

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