I don't own any characters or anything but the story. Criticism is welcome but please don't be rude.
Har'ii focused on keeping the bow held tight and aimed in the right direction, as his father inspected and make corrections to his stance. Aktamu had thankfully healed well from his injuries and now, several months later, all that was left were three long scars that stood out against his skin. He was otherwise completely back to normal much to the relief of his family. Aktamu just then had him move his elbow slightly down while keeping his aim in the same direction.
While Aktamu was healing, the family had most afternoons visiting him to keep him company and not let him get to bored, with having to stay in one place. After he had left the medical area, thing had for the most part gone back to normal. While it wasn't unusual for Aktamu and Ku'el to try to teach them something during their afternoons spent together, recently they had been having them see and experience the different jobs of the clan. They wished for them to start to think about what path they might like to take when they got older. Ku'el assured them they was no need to worry about making a decision any time soon, but they should know what the different options were.
The trio had already seen a lot of what the healers did, when they were visting their father during his recovery. The healers were quite happy to answer any questions about their work. Har'ii had been a little surprised when Ro'an had been the one with the most questions, but Ro'an had only shrugged, when asked about his sudden interest in medicine. When they weren't tending to patients they were out hunting for different herbs or plant that were useful for healing and then preparing them so they would be ready when needed.
The had also spent some time with their mother watching her and the other weavers work. The Omaticaya was known by the other clans to have the finest weavers of textiles, so there was a great amount of pride among them. They had many different size looms that they worked on, but the giant loom that sat in the common area was the largest anywhere. It was called the mother loom and it usually had several people working on it at one time. They had also spent time helping the fruit gatherers and talking more in depth with the storytellers of the clan.
Now Aktamu wished for them to learn the basics of hunting, starting with the correct way to aim and shoot bow, which is how Har'ii ended up in his current position. Ro'an and Hirmi'ee were standing near listening carefully as Aktamu continued giving out instructions. It had been a couple days since these lessons had started and none of the trio had actually fired an arrow yet. They were using children's bows and while they were not nearly as powerful as adult bows, they were still weapons, so they would not be allowed to fire until Aktamu was sure they had the correct stance down.
He finally stepped away from Har'ii form and nodded "Good, you'll need to practice keeping in that position, but you got the general idea." Har'ii smiled before relaxing his body and dropping his arms, as Aktamu called Ro'an over. As Aktamu started instructing Ro'an, Har'ii walked over to stand near Hirmi'ee, when he noticed a troubled look on her face. "What's wrong?" he asked concerned. She seemed to shake herself out of her thoughts, before attempting to give him a smile "It's nothing." Har'ii wanted to press the issue, but knew that she wouldn't talk about until she was ready to, so he just turned to watch his father and brother.
Part of Hirmi'ee wanted to talk Har'ii about what was bothering her, but she wasn't sure how to explain it. For the most her life right now was wonderful. She spent everyday learning more and more about the absolutely fascinating life and history of a world she had not known existed. Her two best friend were now her brothers and she had several new friends among the children they played with everyday. She also had the very kind and patient parents, whom just recently both her and Ro'an had called Mommy and Daddy for the first time, they were in fact the source of her worry.
It wasn't them exactly that was the problem, but what the trio was keeping from them. She couldn't help but feel somewhat guilty about keeping the truth of their past from them. Neither Aktamu or Ku'el had ever pushed them to talk and that made feel a little bit worse. It reminded to much of what had happened with her biological parents. She had kept so much information from them, in order to protect them and when everything came out, it had been horrible.
She had been quite close to her parents when she was young, but they had started to drift apart when she went to Hogwarts. They had tried to be supportive, but it had been hard on them, when Hirmi'ee started gradually spending less time at home and more time at either Hogwarts or with her friends. She realized now that probably felt to them as if she had abandoned them for the wizarding world, though at the time she been only thinking about being there for Ro'an and Har'ii. Spending time with her parents just didn't feel that important with a war going on and one her best friend was right in the middle of it.
She regretted that so much now, but there was nothing she could do about it. When she had erased their memories and sent them out of England, it had never occurred to her the wouldn't forgive her for it. She had been sure they would understand she had done it to protect them, but she had been wrong. They had been furious and upset, blaming her magic and friends for taking their daughter away from them. They told her they didn't want to see her again until she turned her back on them and became their normal little girl again.
It had hurt so much that didn't understand she had been trying to protect them and also help her friends, but she realized that was at least partly her fault for keeping so much of her life from them. She didn't want to make the same mistake with her new parents, by never revealing the truth about her and her brothers. She knew they were quite curious about where the trio had come from and who their original parents were. She was unsure of what their reaction to the truth might and she didn't want to mess up the life they were building here, but it just didn't feel right to continue to keep Aktamu and Ku'el in the dark about the trio's past.
She was so lost in her swirling thought she didn't notice Aktamu trying to get her attention until he stepped right in front of her. "Everything alright?" he asked. She nodded a little to quick "Yes, just got lost in thought." He looked at her curiously "What were you thing so hard about?" Hirmi'ee bit her lip still torn on whether or not to tell him, when she heard the sound of approaching voices and oddly loud footsteps.
It took her only a second to figure who was coming, since na'vi typically moved almost silently through the forest. Her suspicions were confirmed a second later when Grace and a few other dreamwalkers entered the clearing that Hirmi'ee and her family had been practicing in. Hirmi'ee tail flicked and twitched anxiously as the group noticed them and came close. She noticed there were a couple people in the group that she had never see before and they looked somewhat unsure as they followed Grace. She looked over at her family to see that Har'ii and Ro'an looked wary as well, but Aktamu looked calm. The trio had seen Grace around the hometree a few times since she first talked to them sometimes by herself and sometimes with other dreamwalkers, and they tried to avoid her as much as possible.
None of them had any personal problem with Grace. She seemed a like a generally kind person and very caring towards the na'vi, particularly the children. She was incredibly friendly to the trio, trying to get them to like her, but they were all kind of nervous to be in her presence for to long in fear of giving to much away. They were worried that they might accidently reveal they knew a little too much about humans and Earth. The other problem is while Eywa had given them the ability to talk to the na'vi when she changed their appearance, they still understood and could speak English and a couple times one of them had to be stopped from responding to something they shouldn't understand.
Grace smiled when she got close to them. "I see you" she and some of the people with her greeted. Har'ii and his family returned the greeting before Har'ii decide to ask what they were doing. Grace introduced the new scientists with her and explained they were apparently were headed to a part of the forest not far from them to study the qualities of some kind of plant life found there. "So what have you children been doing? It's been a while since we last spoke." Grace said. Har'ii answered happily "Daddy has been teaching us to shoot a bow." While they had just started, Har'ii was finding lessons in hunting to be most interesting of all the ones they had so far.
Grace nodded at with a small smile at him, but the new people seemed to be surprised by this. It took Har'ii a few seconds to realize why. While the three of them had grown some in the last several months they were still rather young children, who were being taught to use a weapon. From what Har'ii had seen, however, it was pretty normal in the Omaticaya for children to learns such skills in case they needed to defend themselves or get their own food for whatever reason.
Hirmi'ee couldn't help but watch the two new dreamwalkers as they continued to talk the group, as their presence was a concern for her. It was clear to her, from listening to them and seeing their reactions to some thing that were said, that they had no real practical knowledge of the na'vi or the planet. They understood the language of the na'vi, but they seemed more comfortable speaking English. It was clear they literally had just arrived on the planet and while that it self wasn't concerning, the fact she didn't know how many more would come was.
She had learned by this point that the dreamwalkers made up a very small portion of the humans population currently residing on the planet, though she had seen no others. A majority of the others, from what she heard, were people who were after some kind of specific mineral found only on this planet and soldiers, though the na'vi called them warriors. How many more had arrived with the two new scientists and what would it mean for the future if they kept coming?
It was another worry to add on top of the situation with her parents. Eventually, Grace and her group decided to continued with their mission and Aktamu stated they should get back to their lesson. It was Hirmi'ee turn and as her father guided her into the right position she tried to let go of her thoughts and just focus on his instructions. She couldn't quite accomplish that, she did end up coming up with a few revelation on some things.
Right now there was nothing to be done about the sky people except see how things played out and hope for the best. As for telling the trio's parents the truth, for the time being she would focus for time being on continuing to strengthen the bond between them and talk to Ro'an and Har'ii about it. When the three of them agreed that the time was right then they would talk to Aktamu and Ku'el and hope they could accept it.