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The Search Continues

Sylwa pursed her lips. He sounded very much like her father, betraying the RDA because they threatened her mother's people and killed her grandfather. "He was a good man. You can't blame yourself. It is the bad Sky people who did this and them alone,".

"That's not how it feels. All that time locked up, I never for once got a single chance to properly mourn them. And it wasn't just me alone," he twisted his head to his brother who was helping Lo'ak up onto his cranky feet. "Erik lost his wife and son too. Everyone we knew was gone. We worked for an organisation that opposed the RDA. The RPS: the Resource Protection Society. Our father Scott Jones founded it. He was desperate to fix the damage humanity had done to our planet. He wanted to bring greenery back, and he wanted to find greener solutions but he was always opposed by the RDA and the governments who financed them. When the RDA began planning to colonise Pandora and we refused to stop opposing them..." he didn't need to finish. "Humanity will never learn the lessons of the past. They choose to be ignorant of the consequences their actions have for others. Sometimes no matter how hard you try you can't make them..."

"See through your point of view?" Sylwa finished for him. Peter could a similar understanding in her eye. He nodded.

"Guys!" their brothers called. "Come look!".

Erik and Lo'ak had been on the lookout, the hybrid teen holding binoculars. "It's the daemon ship,".

"The what?" Peter still couldn't understand Lo'ak idioms.

"An RDA ship heading straight for us," Erik pointed outwards. Sylwa snatched the binoculars from her twin and looked out. More than a mile away, she saw a gigantic ship powered by four, fanned designed engines. Her stomach twisted. Was this ship that killed her Spirit Sister's mother?

"We've got to leave now," Erik pressed frantically. "If we can get as far away as we can, we just might be able to lose them,".

"Don't be so sure Erik," Peter warned. "They must have found a way to track us down,".

"Whatever, we have to go now!" Lo'ak said impatiently. There was no time to waste. Quickly they strapped all their supplies to the Ikran and once they were mounted, their wings fanned and they rocketed into the sky, using the cloud cover. They hoped they would lose them quickly.

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The morning had arrived and Neytiri would not leave the hut. Jake knew he needed to talk to her. "Babe.." she wouldn't turn. He sighed. "I know I've made a lot of mistakes with Lo'ak and Sylwa. But it doesn't mean I don't try to understand them or I was trying to make them feel so alone,".

"I know Jake," his mate answered. "I know...it's just...I'm worried about them. I feel like maybe I should have done more for them,".

"Hey, hey babe, don't you dare say that," he knelt beside her. "I'm the one who should have done so many things differently,".

"I don't blame you for how you acted with them," she was finally talking to him again much to his delight. "It's just they've always been different and I hate them being different makes them unhappy a lot. And I feel as a mother I have failed to help them realise that,".

"No. It's I who failed. I expected too much out of them and I wanted them to be 'perfect' like Neteyam but I drove them apart that way. It's no wonder Lo'ak accused me of favouring their brother. Babe..." he cupped his mate's face. "I promise the twins will be found and returned safe and well. I will do all I can to that end and I will try better to understand and See them,".

She tearfully smiled and allowed herself to fall into his warm arms. "I know,". He cried a little into her braids and patted her hair. Three heads poked inside and they expressed tearful smiles. Neteyam led his sisters away but when they walked along the platform, Tonowari walked up to them with a serious expression.