Chapter 1 Late
Tom ran into the link room, stuttering out apologies. The scientist whose name he couldn't remember looked up.
"You're late, Tom." He said. "I probably should warn you. Grace is annoyed."
Max, that was his name.
Tom groaned. Grace had seemed nice when he'd seen him yesterday. "I hear you're good at your Na'vi."
Tom had smiled back. "Oel Ngati Kameie." he said, using the common Na'vi phrase.
But then Max had warned him. Grace, although amazing, was hard to work with.
"Is this gonna go on my record?" he said. "Avatar Driver was late for his first day. I'm not gonna be stuck in the compound for all eternity am I?"
"Oh, I doubt it. Selfridge wouldn't allow it. Five billion dollars and the avatar doesn't leave Hell's Gate? I don't think so." Max laughed. "I'd be more worried about Grace."
Tom nodded, and went over to the only unused link bed. He climbed in and looked at Max.
"Um...my alarm clock broke?" he said.
Max rolled his eyes. Tom shut the lid, and lay there.
Cae'lena stalked the Sky Person from the trees. He didn't know he was being watched, lest know that the watcher wanted to kill him.
She knew how it worked. They see you, they shoot. You die. She'd seen it happen.
They don't care about anything...they destroy...
They don't even care about children...
She took aim. From some instinct or the other, he suddenly realised he was being watched from above. He looked around, alarmed.
Cae'lena released the bow. The arrow soared through the air and hit him the in the stomach. He collapsed.
But he wasn't dead. He groaned in pain. And no Na'vi liked to see anyone in pain...even the Sky people.
Well, at least Cae'lena didn't.
She quickly checked to see no-one was around, and dropped from the trees. She didn't bother with any ceremonial words about his spirit going to Eywa-frankly, she didn't think Eywa wanted the sky people, and the sky people didn't deserve to go to Eywa.
But she stabbed her knife in his chest, killing him, and pulled out the arrow. It was her best arrow.
"That's for being in Omaticaya lands." she hissed.
Cae'lena left him, and walked away. The Sky people had been here for as long as she could remember. Only problem was, they didn't used to destroy everything in sight...
"Hey! You!"
Tom turned to see Grace-or her avatar-running towards him. Grace was annoyed.
"You were two hours late." Grace folded her arms and glared at Tom. "Did a Banshee swallow you whole and then regurgitate you, or something, because that's the only reasonable excuse I can think of for your lateness."
"A banshee wouldn't have got near my room." Tom shrugged, smiling slightly.
Grace frowned. "Thanks for the sarky comment. Explain."
"My alarm clock broke." Tom said. "I know it's my first day and-"
"I wonder if you really want this Avatar, Tom." Grace snapped. "Five billion dollars. And about a million applications. There was only two on the last flight in. Norm and you. Norm was on time. You were not."
Tom gulped. "I want this and-"
"Then you better start acting like it." Grace snapped. "And don't think I'm forgetting this. You're on longhouse duty."
Tom looked in confusion. Grace laughed.
"That means your cleaning the longhouse. For a week."
Tom groaned. But it was better than he'd hoped.
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