Sorry to keep you guys waiting sooooooo long. I had some major writer's block issues
here's chap 7. i'll be updating as often as i can
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When we returned to Hometree, Neytiri was waiting for me. But something was different…she had a very worried look on her face.
"Jake, come," she said shakily.
"What's wrong?" I was worried, usually Neytiri was happy and upbeat, and when she looked worried, it was really bad.
She didn't say anything, she just grabbed my hand and led me up the inner spiral of Kelutrel (Hometree).
We arrived at the infirmary. I knew this couldn't be good.
I expected to see Mo'at rushing around the room; however she was lying in the hammock in the center of the room. She was covered in a blanket.
I immediately rushed across the room to see what was wrong.
"I am very worried," Neytiri said softly.
I leaned over the Tsahik and upon closer inspection, she appeared to be asleep.
Neytiri coughed, a little louder than necessary it seemed.
Suddenly I heard a yell and Mo'at sat straight up with her hands raised in the air. I nearly jumped out of my blue skin. For a moment I was very worried and thought something horrible had happened. Then I heard my mates musical laughter ringing out behind me.
"You tricked me? you little…" I didn't know how to respond, my wife/mate and her mother had orchestrated this elaborate prank.
"You do not yet know all of our customs Jakesully".
"What kind of custom is this?"
"It is called Hyik'trr," Neytiri piped up, "day of jokes. It's a light hearted day where everyone plays tricks on each other".
"Ohh, like April fool's day back on earth"
"I do not know what that is, but probably".
"mmhm," I said, lost in thought.
After Neytiri's admittedly clever practical joke, Trudy, Norm, and I returned to the "shack". And since Trudy was the only one of the three of us who's fingers were still small enough to work the controls, Norm and I talked her into the programs she needed to access to contact Max at the lab.
"Hey guys," a brown bearded face said as it appeared on screen, "how are you".
"good, what about you," I asked my friend.
"I'm fine. And I'm making great progress on Trudy's Avatar. It will take me a while to get everything sorted out, but…" he trailed off because a young scientist named Maria was asking him to check something, very urgently, "hold on a sec guys," Max rushed off to help out a group of scientists who were gathered around one of the large stasis tubes used for growing avatars.
Maria stepped onscreen and started talking, "sorry for pulling Dr. Patel away from you, but we are about to start getting the avatar out of the tube, and he needs to check something last minute".
"It's alright".
"Hey I'm back," said a flushed Max.
"What did you have to check?" I asked curiously, but before Max could answer, Trudy cut him off.
"My Avatar's done?"
"Yep, that's what I was just telling you. You can come down anytime you want to learn how to link and drive and stuff".
"What's there to learn, you lay down in the thing and you wake up ten feet tall and blue."
"just come down here asap, and we'll show you everything".
Trudy didn't like being kept in the dark about anything, and she grumbled when Max shut off the link.
"let's start heading down there".
"Tomorrow," I said. It's getting dark.
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