Hazel stood off to the side, looking through a window towards three avatars being attended to by little humans in exo-masks. Her avatar lay on one of the large tables, looking in a deep slumber. Grace, Norm and Jake were bickering behind her.

"How much time have you logged?"

Norm answered proudly. "Five hundred and twenty hours".

There was a pause. "I don't know, an hour?"

That would be Jake. Hazel smirked again when Grace started complaining. Those two were hilarious, bickering like siblings. But Hazel had a much more entertaining activity to do, she thought, as she made her way towards her link chamber.

"Don't, I got this!" Grace and Jake were still arguing when Hazel secured the lid of the link chamber over her. She entered into her slight meditation like she did when entering cyro-sleep and pulled her magic within her skin. She was ready.

Hazel signalled to Max to initiate the link and closed her eyes.

-~-

Hazel could feel it when she left her human body. She knew for certain that she wasn't meant to feel anything, she had read all the studies after all, but nothing had ever been simple with her. Not only her brain activity, but also her magic, had been pulled through the link connecting her human body to her avatar. Hazel had suspected something like this would happen. She knew that her magic was a part of her soul and mind, not just her body. It wasn't painful or uncomfortable, it was as if her magic just followed her mind along for the ride while a few wisps remained with her human body.

Almost as though Hazel was viewing from afar, she watched as her mind and magic settled into her avatar, pulling her conscious down with it.

-~-

Blinking, Hazel was reminded of when she woke up from cyrosleep, but this time she came to her realisations much quicker hearing an exclamation above her. Two small humans were peering down at her, flashing lights into her new sensitive eyes. She heard another gasp, as that had been what the sound was that woke her from her confusion.

"Her eyes!" One says.

"Max! Get Max! Her eyes, there's something wrong with them!"

Hazel had an idea what was wrong with her eyes. It was something that happened in her animagus form as well that wasn't normal. They stayed the same bright, rich green as her human body. Hermione had often just frowned at her in her animagus form, growled in frustration, and exclaimed "It just doesn't make sense!" Hazel suspected she would be hearing something similar again very soon from Max. Hazel didn't mind at all, and knew they would have to let it go eventually. They would probably come up with some scientific reason why it happened and leave it at that.

Hazel huffed and sat up, pushing the humans gently away from her. "Are they green?" Her voice sounded light and airy, like the veelas when they sang from time ago. She smiled, beginning to stand.

"Wha- How did yo-"

A commotion to the side distracted the two people, drawing their and Hazel's attention to the more violent of the present issues.

Jake seemed to have found his tail. Or his tail seemed to have found him. He turned sharply as if to catch it like a cat, and sweeped equipment all across the floor laughing and wooping.

"Easy Jake! I need you to sit down." But Jake wasn't listening. Hazel shook her head slightly, smiling at the sight. Jake was standing for the first time in years, and yet the attendants were surprised that he would immediately want to stand, walk and run. Idiots.

Jake started moving forward, pulling the monitors away from his body looking towards the door.

"Jake wait! We have to run some tests!" Max's yells fell on deaf ears as Jake was stumbling across the room, Max and all of the attendants following like flies, not knowing if they should try and subdue him or keep a safe distance.

Now that she was alone, Hazel focused back on her own body. She ran her hands over her arms and face, enjoying the sensations of her tingling new skin. Grinning, she began to remove the bio-monitors and medical sheet from her body, replacing them with the clothes left near the table. She skipped the boots, not wanting anything to separate her from the ground below.

Hazel had seen pictures of the Na'vi, and now understood why they wore so little clothing. It felt constricting and ruff on her skin, almost as if it would cause a rash. She let them be for now, but not the boots. She cringed already at the thought of wearing boots in this form. Remembering when she used to wiggle her human toes in the remaining roots and mud in Columbia. Those times seemed almost tragic now.

Smiling widely, she headed to the door not wanting to be stopped if the others came back from chasing Jake.

Hazel emerged slowly at first, completely and utterly overwhelmed by the feeling of pure LIFE all around her. Everything was bright and humming with vibrance and energy.

The other magic didn't let her take it all in thought, and began laughing and dancing, pulling physically at her hands and arms, pushing her from behind.

She ran. Ran and ran and ran. Away from concrete and mankind. Hazel jumped and leaped and spun through the work out equipment and man-made fences. Escaping further and further into the tree line. Running her hands briefly at the trees and plants along her way.

When Hazel was deep enough into the forest she stopped, laughing breathlessly in relief, not being able to control her happiness. Falling down to her knees she grasped at the floor trying to become closer to the life force that was her saving grace. The laughs caught in her throat and turned to cries. The cries turned to sobs.

Hazel had been alone for such a long time. Really, Hazel had been alone for her whole life. But at least for the beginning of her life she had Gaia with her. Now, surrounded by forest life that she experienced for decades, and the new planet's magic a loving weight on her skin, she let her emotions come crashing down. She hadn't realised how tightly wound she was until melted into the ground.

Pressing her forehead against the moss, Hazel slowly calmed down from heaving sobs and just left the tears fall into the ground below her.

"Thank you." Hazel breathed out into the ground, putting all her feeling into her words and magic.

Feeling a flutter in her hair, Hazel uncurled from her position on the floor and looked up. She was surrounded by woodsprites, or atokirina as Na'vi called them. Smiling, Hazel thanked the moon yet again for this gift. The clearing was full of them bouncing and being pushed by her magic. She could almost hear the whispers and laughter coming from each one.

Giggling herself, Hazel sat up, once again admiring the surrounding forest she was in. There were plants of all the colours of the rainbow. Some of their leaves were meters long and wide, covering patches of the sky in a green glow. Currently, the leaving atokirina were adding another depth of colour with their faint white and pink light.

Hazel decided to do something that she hadn't done in an extremely long time. Ever so slowly, she released the constant grip on her magic. It seeped through her skin like silky water, spreading throughout the forest clearing. The moon's magic was delighted, having not known how much Hazel had been concealing her magic. Smiling, Hazel stretched her magic, not completely, but more than she had ever done since the final Wizarding War. Stretching her magic felt extremely relieving. It was yet another thing that she had to constantly press down on Earth. If she had done this simple stretch of her magic, she would have sparked out electricity within a twenty-meter radius.

Unfortunately, she knew she had to pull it back into herself. If she did this around humans, her magic could accidently destroy their exo-masks.

Hazel had been in the forest for quite a time now, and she needed to return soon. She couldn't up and leave the muggles unfortunately. Especially not when her human body was being held by them and she would have to return to it. For the time being, she would stay and learn about their plans. Afterall, she had not forgotten her promise she made to Gaia.

Preparing herself, Hazel headed back towards the base.