a/n: this is my third chapter and i am really proud of this one.
i woke up in my avatar chamber. i guess this wasn't really my new body, after all. a part of myself felt a little embarrassed. i went straite back to my room with li. apparently, she made dinner, ate her share, and then left. instant seaweed noodles with a pale green sauce that's supposed to taste like shrimp or whatever that was. I ate it with the last lychee soda and went straight to bed. The noodles felt like a rock in my belly. that night, i didn't dream.
that morning, I woke up earlier than I shold've. it was still dark and I made sure that i didn't wake up jacee. out of respect, I didn't go into the laboratory place until Grace and the others arrived. i fell asleep waiting for them. i was shooken up by Grace who was already annoyed at the presance of jake, the wheelchair guy. "rise and shine, sleepy head." i still felt a little drowsey even when i got in my chamber, but i still remembered what grace told me. stay out of the way, and for god's sake, please don't touch anything! as i closed the chamber down on me, i felt a jumping feeling in my gut. something was going to happen, i supposed. that encouraged my worries to further. i read plently of books on pandora's wildlife. thanators were not nice.
you get a real headrush when you come back in your avatar body. coupled with the bright sun, i had to avert my eyes from the blaring brightness. i don't know how grace or the others are so used to the idea of having no window shades, but they recover from it just fine. i think its because i'm new, even though jake and norm seem to be okay with it as well. i did the normal routine of getting something to eat (i believe i'm addicted to those fruits, now) and changing out of my pajamas. i was given a standard issue tank top and some bright blue sweat shorts. norm let me borrow a pair of his boots. the rest of the morning and some of the midnoon was spent in training our avatar bodies. after that, it was time for us to get down to jungle floor. that's where i met trudy for the first time. she was actually nice, very tough, but she was nice and i liked her even if we didn't speak that much.
the ride to pandora was particulary interesting. i got to see these things, they're called stingbats, there was a swarm of them when we reached the forests. for something so scary looking there were also kinda pretty. we landed near the edge of the forest. i wasnt sure if i was supposed to follow or not, but from the looks of dr. augestine, apparently, i was. "you're the daughter of peter jordan, the famous ecologist, i thought you'd like to see why your father was obsessed with this enviroment." i did. norm and grace were scientists so, naturally, they wanted to take samples and study the biology of the rain forest. jake was supposed to be our bodyguard (even though we already had wainfleet); he was ordered to shoot, or kill anything or anyone who would be a threat, or warn us about for the very least. i, however, was given no orders, except to stay out of the way. and i did, i decided to tag along with jake, but he got a little sidetracked. "mister suley, i don't thinky ou should mess with those helicoraidens..." was waht i wanted to say. but like all things, i was too late. a hammerhead was the cause of the suddenly retreating helicoradens, "Don't shoot or you'll piss it off."