Minds Are Like Skies

[Tswayon]

Today was a very nice and calm day in the mountains, the skies were clear of any clouds that might have caused rain to pour, but it was humid enough to keep everything from drying up form any intense heat. Now, a lot of Na'vi would take these as an advantage to be out and do what they would wish to be doing on a splendid day like this. The Healers and Gatherers would be looking out for any sort of plants to help the clan out with wounds and their stomachs, the hunters would be out protecting the group from those careless Sky People, or even gathering meat for the night.

But for Tswayon, it was just another beautiful day to go out with Takuk, his Ikran, and take wing into the vast and open skies while he had his chance.

He loved the skies almost more than anything else on Pandora, even though there was really nothing that was in the open sky itself, it was one of the reasons why he loved it so much. It was where he felt free and without anything holding onto him to keep him in some place, and it was a place where he can always clear his mind off of things, and sometimes think of other things that he couldn't really tell others of.

But today he was on a little mission as it was, so he couldn't be goofing off the entire time he was up in the air. He hadn't been getting Tihawnu, a female Na'vi who had always been his best childhood friend for the longest of times, any sort of historical items on the Sky People lately, and he had been fearing that she may get different thoughts about him, that could not happen. Tswayon had heard rumors of some old ruins around the mountains, and had went to investigate, and what better way to look for things than having a Ikran's eye view?

But for hours he had been searching now for these ruins now, and he had been getting some really bad doubts if this thing had even existed. Though he had been paying attention more of his hearts thoughts instead of in his head, and they were constantly telling him that they were here, he just needed to look harder was all. And would luck have it, his heart was right. Not too far away was something dull, but it was certainly not anything that should have been on Pandora at all.

Quickly, he ordered Takuk mentally to fly down to the floating rock with the ancient technology, and had landed right beside it with perfect grace. Carefully he had gotten off his Ikran, and moved his goggles off of his eyes to see it properly, for sure it was not anything that the Na'vi had made in the least.

"Takuk, stay here."

He ordered his Ikran as he stroked his nose, though his Ikran tried biting it off. He never liked it when his rider had touched him affectionately like that, he just found it gross. But all Tswayon did was chuckle at him and patted his neck before moving towards the old structure, he was for sure going to find some interesting stuff in her, his senses just knew it.

[Kachina]

Kachina had been flying that day. Little did the male know but she was never to far behind him. China chuckled to herself when she thought of surprising him. She'd never met him before but she was sure that he loved flying the most. By the way that he flew it looked like his heart itself was souring. This meeting could be very interesting.

China looked around. She noted that he was looking for something. But what? What could a Na'vi want to find here? The femme's curiosity was getting the best of her. She flew in closer but dodged his line-of-sight when he turned to pet his Ikran. After this she did another fly-by, of course in the area behind him so that he couldn't see her. Yes indeed it seemed that he was searching for something.

Silently she and Yim landed. It was so quiet that the only one that noticed them landing was the male's Ikran, and he wasn't going to say anything. China then hopped off of her Ikran and gave him a kiss on the nose. 'He' loved affection. Perhaps it was because it came from a female's tender touch. For what ever the reason it bound them together forever.

Kachina tip-toed up behind the searching male. She was merely a few feet behind him, walking with the grace of a swan on a glassy lake. It tickled her to know that she could fool him, at least up until this point. China began to wonder when he would notice or feel that there was someone behind him. This game was to fun. She was up to trouble again, something that she was noted for in her clan.

[Tswayon]

Something was bugging Tswayon when he had been flying in the air, and even now the feeling was pestering him at this time. It was the feeling of being watched, like someone had been observing him while he was taking his journey around the old ruins of the Sky People. It was a constant tingle in the back of his neck that merely would not go away from him, like a bad bite from an insect what would not cease to wear off on him.

But what could be causing him to be like this? He had been soaring with nobody coming along with him, and he had made good sure that he was not being followed by any other Na'vi, if it was a Sky person, that would be too easy to find out that they were even following him from over a few good miles. He tried to shake this feeling off of him some more, like who in great Eywa's name would follow him all the way out here?

No matter what, with this feeling of being watched or not, he wasn't going to fall back now just because of stupid paranoid feelings. He had to do this task, and it wasn't just for himself to keep showing that he was a true man, no, this was merely to keep showing his use and caring duties to his true love.

Tihawnu was the one he loved out of any female Na'vi around the entire clan, ever since the two were just kids, he enjoyed every second of being with her, no matter what the situation was, he was alway by her side. She was one of the main reasons why he was so interested in the Sky People themselves, and always tried to learn more about them through her.

But he hadn't been finding very much recently, all because of the rules being made to keep away from the sky people, and it always got on his nerves. At least the Sky people did not realize that this place had existed just yet which was a relief, but if the king had found out about this... he knew he would have his head handed to him, not a very good thing.

When he had gotten to the door of the ruins, his nose had twitched just a little, but it had came with a scent filling his senses. His eyes widened and his heart began to pound faster with the realization going though his mind, someone really had been following him! He tried taking a few deep breaths to calm himself down, but it wasn't doing the trick for him right now, and swallowed hard while frozen in the same position.

How could have followed him this far and that quiet for him to not even it notice someone following him? The smell of the scent he recieved was one of the Na'vi which had relived him a little bit, and the smell was that of a female, though it was not Tihawnu's scent. So who would have wanted to follow him all the way over to here? Slowly he began to turn around his body to see who it could be, and his heart just stopped for a brief moment in frozen fear.

"P-P-Princess! I-I-I, Y-you, wh-hat?"

He constantly studdered out in fear out to Kachina as he leaned on the structure of the building with his breathing being quick and through his teeth as his mind began flashing moments of what might happen to him which included a long and horrible torture, and then a slow and utterly painful death to come straight after.

In the middle of that though, the structure could not take the tense muscles and the weight that was being pressured onto it, and had broken off on him, and fell to the ground before he could even yell about it, and slammed on the back of his head hard, causing him to hold it a little and moaning in slight pain about it, how humiliationg to do that in front of royalty.

[Kachina]

The slender femme kept following him, pulling one over on him. Naturally she thought that this was very funny. It was so funny that when he turned around he was grasping for words, stuttering. Of course China laughed out loud, covering her lips for a moment with her hand.

For a moment she looked back at her Ikran, if only to make sure that he was still there. Sometimes he would leave her. It seemed that he was not beyond a joke as well. Yes he was still there and so was the male when she turned around to face him again. "Good day sir. What are you doing out here?" China almost sounded like she was reprimanding him due to the tone that she had in her voice.

This was going to be fun, or so she thought. She was almost always seeking some way to give herself a thrill. It wasn't easy being the princess. Most would think that her life would be a piece of cake but that was far beyond the truth. Living up to her name and position was very hard, tasking at times. Needless to say but it stressed her out, seemingly breaking her limits to cope. And so this was why she perhaps rode her Ikran faster then most and how she'd take risks when a normal Na'vi would just be cautious.

China began to pace a bit, putting her hands behind her back as if she were at some court hearing and the male was on trial. She was still playing her joke, maybe trying to scare him. It would be very interesting to see what he'd do next. Inwardly though she hoped that she wouldn't scare him away. Company for her would be nice. Most times she was lonely even if she was constantly surrounded by other Na'vi. She felt close to none of them really. China longed to develop close friends.

[Tswayon]

Tswayon had been swallowing hard for quite some time, even after ha had fallen and hit his head on the back of what was a Sky Person door until it had broke off when he had put too much pressure on it and fell hard. It still could not take the nervousness in his mind about what might happen to him, and it scared him to think that even pain could not take away worry. It was strange though, for after he fell he swore that he heard laughter coming out of the Princess' mouth, was she just merely toying with him? It had gotten just a little bit angry to have her scare him like this, it wasn't too funny for him at all.

But what could he do? She was royal blood and could not be barked at like any other individual that you would find around the clan, no, if you yelled at Someone like her you wind up dead in Eywa's soils, and he wasn't going to die just yet because of some sort of stupid joke. So he would have no choice but play along in this little game of hers.

"Not very much your highness, just investigating was all"

He said with a modest tone of voice to calm himself down a bit more, and he had told a bit of the truth to her which was for sure, so there were going to be no surprises for her to encounter with him really. Cause the last title he would like to be called was a liar to the clan leaders.

"Umm... Would you like to come with me to investigate?"

He asked warm- heartedly to the Princess as he moved out of the way where he made the whole to allow her an open entrance if she wanted to come in with him. He could use a little company, after all. Though no matter what he did, he had to make sure he found useful things to help find out why these Sky People had came here again, and try to recall why they came the first time.

[Kachina]

China knew that she shouldn't be laughing at the expense of the male but she just couldn't help it. She knew that nobody could touch her, even though she wanted to be seen as normal to everyone else. Still she might just be using her whole lot in life to her advantage. It was all in fun.

He asked her then if she wanted to investigate with him. She grinned and stepped forward, speaking as she did so. "Sure. Why not. And please call me Kachina or China if you'd like." She threw him another grin as she reached for the door-knob.

They were standing right next to each other now. Oh yes she was aware of her feminine wiles and she used them constantly. And so she turned and looked at him, her beautiful eyes blinking. "What are you searching for here?" She had yet to learn his name but she was also sure that he would give it to her soon.

[Tswayon]

Tswayon had to feeling as well the understanding on what his royal highness was trying to do to him, and he didn't like it one little bit. He could sense that she was trying to sway him with her feminine charms, and the scent she gave off was indeed that to make other males fall to their knees, but he was much more stronger than that, as well was he faithful.

He had only one love in his life that he cared for, and he was going to keep his love on her alone as it is, and that was Tihawnu. Sure she seemed to be immature at times when they needed to be acting like the adults that they were, and yes she had so many countless stories of the Sky People that would seem like mere fairy tales, but he was always there for her through in and through out.

When Kachina ha asked about what they were searching for, Tswayon had merely shrugged at her as like an answer. In truth, he never did know what he needed to ever find, it was always something that seemed to be quite important-looking, or something that had to do with the writings of the sky people so they could learn their language just for those times where they may meet up with one another at times.

"Just... I dunno... Just anything that seems interesting and meaningful enough to bring back with us I suppose."

He said as he went through the hole which he had created to get inside of the place, seeing as the Sky People's door was no use if there was a massive hole right inside of it. Though what he saw inside was something he could not believe for himself, he just didn't know to call it either a fantasy, or a horror house.

Inside he saw numerous test-tubes and many of the machines which the Sky People probably used during the times that he had worked here, but was disturbed him the most what was they were working on. He really did not know what they were himself, but they seemed like unusual creatures that were stuck inside of some of these glass tubes, and connected in some places to wires and other metallic things, it was just something you couldn't believe with your own eyes.

"Great Eywa... what did they do here?"

He asked in a whisper and kept examining these unusual and tiny creatures in the tubes. For some odd reason though... He felt like these things were similar to the Na'vi in some way just by looking at each different one, but no, Na'vi were never that small and never looked like something as deformed as that... But still... it lingered in him to know what these things were, and hoped to find out what they were suppose to be in the first place.

[Kachina]

Kachina got funny vibes from the male. She wondered what it was because she couldn't quite put her finger on it. Most male's loved to be flirted with by a princess. Well she couldn't say that she was fully flirting with him but maybe it was just the scent that she gave off. Most male Na'vi were very keen to it. China chuckled again just for no reason, well maybe due to the thoughts in her own mind, but she quickly sauntered forward. She always sensed that there was much more to what he was saying. Why would he be wanting Sky-People things for himself?

China's eyes widened when she saw what she did. A chill ran up her spin and she began to feel sick to her stomach. This was just crazy. They shouldn't be here! Part of her wanted to run but the other part didn't want the male to think that she was a wimp or anything like that. She was the 'Princess' after all.

Slowly she shook her head. "I don't know but this is awful. They look like they were trying to grow something." The Na'vi never understood the full details of what the Sky-People did. If they did find out it might really shock them. Now China's stomach was really getting queasy, especially when she saw some blood in tubes that were stuffed into a tray. Lightly she began to rub her stomach, making a face as she backed away from it a few steps.

[Tswayon]

Tswayon wouldn't very much care if Kachine had decided to leave him here out of the un-even fear that was lingering inside her, building up for the many different reasons that had been around this room right now, and he couldn't blame her in the very least at this time. He was scared out of wits as well if he had told her the truth at this time, this was just a disturbing scene that just stood still in time, like all but the two Na'vi had been in place for centuries, not being able to do anything in the slightest. On the other hand, these things were most likely dead as it is, seeing that it had been three centuries since these odd little creatures were growing, and there was absolutely no way to make the dead back to life... Right?

None the less though, this was just disgusting to see this, all of this. He had once heard of the Sky People working on stuff like this however in stories from others from the clan including Tihawnu about the Sky People having bodies of a Na'vi that looked like their own species to learn about them, but he never did see strange and tiny things just as these little creatures, not on Pandora at least... So what were they for then?

Even if these little, freaky creatures did kind of get his attention for a bit, he took his eyes off of them for a moment to investigate what other freakish things they had been growing inside of this place, though not too much luck was happening with him to find other different creatures. All he was finding were giant glass tubes where those other tiny creatures, but some of these seemed like for his and for the royal highness' size, some were even filled with unusual liquids that had some sweet scents to them, yet he never did get close to them in case if was poisonous for them.

Still... This stuff still impressed him just a little bit, even if he wasn't seeing much to see besides the ugly little creatures from before, all of this had meant that that the stories of the old Dream Walkers could be indeed true, and a little bit of proof could be shown just from this very room alone. Though he knew that there was something still here, he could just feel it creeping though his spine, and he had to find it in order for it to stop itself from tingling on itself.

By then, he had walked up to a door which had some of the writings of the Sky People written on it in black. Now, Tswayon had been studying some of the language himself, and even if he did not know all that was needed to fully communicate in their language, he had enough to make some sort of sense for them. Reading the stuff was a bit harder though as it was usually spoken or heard, though he was managing to read the words for himself. From what he could tell just by what was left of the writings, it seemed to say: "Adult Growth Station."

Now that made him tilt his head a little as he rubbed his half-torn right head with his hand. What in Eywa's name did all of this even mean? But all he did was shrug it off, since it seemed that he would be finding out what it even was very soon as it is. So he put just put a finger and a thumb on the door knob so he could turn it open, for if he put his entire hand on it, it would just cover it.

With a quick turn of his fingers on the knob, the door had been unlocked, allowing him to pull it open and seeing what was on the other side, and he had just turned pale at the very sight he was looking at. In the room there were Na'vi, all lined up in giant tubes like the ones he saw before, all hooked up to wires in numerous places, and seeming to be in a long sleep. It didn't matter what this place was now, it was a horrific nightmare, a nightmare that should not even have came into anyones' mind.

[Kachina]

Being the Princess meant more than the usual for a Na'vi. China had studied in depth about the humans and what they had done years ago. Perhaps this was why she had gotten so sick to the stomach. The revelation of what this place was hit her like a ton of bricks. It took all that she had to keep from throwing up right then and there.

China turned to look at her new friend. Her eyes must have had the look of horror in them. They were wide and her lips were parted a little, making for the perfect shocked facial expression. After a few seconds of looking at him she stepped forward, toward him. Her pace quickened when she saw that he was going to open a door. She wanted to stop him but she was too late. What if there was something even more horrible behind that door? China would surely lose it.

Her pace was quickened and she couldn't stop the force of it. Once upon Tswayon she bumped straight into him with a thud, pushing them both into the room as she stumbled forward, trying not to fall. What her eyes saw next was amazing. No longer was she sick but fascinated. They were fully grown Na'vi in much larger tubes then the first ones! China knew that she should be offended but she couldn't help but to marvel at the human's knowledge.

China took a few more steps and pressed her hand on the glass, almost as if she felt a connection with the Na'vi body that was inside. She wondered if she should show her father this place. Maybe her new male friend would have an opinion on this. She spoke without taking her large golden orbs off of the lifeless Na'vi. "Should we tell our people about this place?"

Kachina looked upon the body with awe. She allowed her eyes to flow over its body. For a while it didn’t even register in her mind that the Na’vi body was male, she was just too intrigued by the whole miracle of it. She would have to pray to Eywa later for having such thoughts. The human’s work actually impressed her.

[Tswayon]

This was just so wrong, and it was like that on so many levels for what he was seeing right now with his own eyes. Of course he should have expected to be something just like this when he had heard the stories of the Dream-Walkers and how they could be both human and Na'vi at times, but this sure did come to a surprise to him. So much that he had forgotten that the Princess was with him to explore this place, but had remembered when he felt a body ram into him, causing him to stumble a bit before stopping his body from falling on the silver floors underneath him, and stood back up tall once more to look back at the Na'vi in the tubes again.

This time though, it seemed that the Princess had gone up to one of the Na'vi inside of the tubes and lightly put her hand onto the glass cylinder. Of course Tswayon would go and get her away from it out of protection reasons, but she seemed to be in no harm, and he could not dare touch her for the sake of keeping what was left of him together. Though she asked him a question while she did not move in the least, and it was about if it was best to tell the clan about all of this here. He just walked up towards Kachina, going right to her side as he too examined the different Na'vi that were concealed in the cylinders, he could admit that it was incredible that these Sky People could make their own kind, but this alone was giving him a bad feeling about this.

"How can we?"

He said simply as he looked at Kachina for a brief moment, and then back at the un-living Na'vi once more to examine their details again.

"This would only give a bad vibe to the Sky People, and it would make others of the clan angry at them for what they could do, and what they have done centuries ago... No, we can't tell... Except for maybe one of them, these Dream-Walkers."

He told the Princess with a sigh escaping his lips, shaking his head low for a moment as he had brought his left hand onto the glass wall, the unusual chill coming over the sensitive parts of his palm and fingertips, which had spread to go right though his spinal cord that had been mixed with worry that kept sitting in his gut, it was a horrible feeling to have just lingering in there. Though it was an obvious feeling to have seeing that these Na'vi had no lives of their own, and were left here to stay with no other purpose for any of them, they had no point in life... How could Eywa allow such a thing like this to happen to them? Could they be set free and live the life a normal Na'vi could live? Or was it only the Sky People that could possess their bodies and work around in it just like a puppet?

[Kachina]

Somehow 'not' telling her father felt wrong but at the same time she'd hate to see them come and tear down everything here. She knew that the Na'vi that was inside the tubes weren't really alive but for some reason it saddened her to think that they would be destroyed. She knew that they couldn't die since they were already dead but it still felt like killing someone.

China nodded her head and then looked at Tswayon for a moment. "For now it will be our secret but eventually we may have to inform the others of this place." Kachina deepened her gaze at the male. She wondered what things he was thinking about. Right now she wanted to know every thought that was rushing through his mind.

She turned and walked out of the room, speaking to him as she sauntered forward. China turned her head to glance back at him as she spoke softly, almost as if she were afraid that those life-less Na’vi bodies would hear her. "What do you want from this place?" Sorely she wanted to know why he was here. She was sure that he wasn't telling her the whole truth, nothing but the truth... so help him Eywa.

For now she ignored the fact that he suggested that they somehow tell one of the Sky-People about this. She'd never come face to face with one before in her life and she wasn't sure she wanted to start now, not that in the future she wouldn't finally meet one but she was hoping to put it off for as long as possible. It wasn’t that she was afraid either. Well she wasn’t afraid of them per-say but she did worry about the problems that they could cause.

The slender female turned and leaned up against a nearby desk. Her round cisterns of yellowish-gold were now gazing at him, waiting for an answer to her question. She really needed to know why he was here before she could explore further. China just hoped that he was here for good reasons rather than bad.

[Tswayon]

Tswayon was real quiet for the las little while as he looked at any Na'vi that was in his eye sight, even when he heard Kachina say that this would for the time being be their little secret, he had given no reply to her. It was rude to not reply to any royalty that talks to you, for it was usually an honor if they even said a hello to you, but Tswayon didn't feel like talking right now, not while he was seeing all of this horror in front of him.

However, he began to leave the room around the same time Kachina had been leaving since he did understand that he couldn't just stare at them for the rest of his life, and just walked out while he was rubbing his head that was drooped a little in utter shame of having to witness that horrific little display of lifeless bodies just laying there in a watery grave like that. Eventually he looked back at Kachina again when she had asked him what he had wanted from here, he just shook his head and replied to her.

"The truth? None of what we saw..."

He said as his tail had been whipping around his legs nervously at the thought began to fill his head on what must have happened so many years back, what must have been done to make so many of these life-less Na`vi for their own false bodies, it was revolting, and it made him sick to his stomach , making him want to vomit the evil in his mind. Though that would only make him vomit out his lunch.

"I... I was hoping just to find, I dunno. A bunch of Sky People writings, or maybe a picture of some sort. But this... I was not expecting, and I am sorry for having to let you see this, Princess."

He told her in a low and a bit of a crackly voice as his eyes were taken off of her and looking around the area that they came back into, until he had found a book of some sorts. This book he hadn`t seen seen before which was for sure, for he had found a handful in other places, though this one was different, and it could tell them what may have happened here before the Sky People left it. That is... If they really wanted to know, but either way, he had stashed it in the bag he had with him so he could look at it later.

[Kachina]

Kachina didn't understand why the male wanted things of the humans. She was sure that there were things that he was not saying. For instance. What was the driving force behind his desire to collect humanly things? There had to be a reason for it but the femme wasn't sure if she should question him further. Then again. She's the Princess of the clan and had every right to know. Plenty of their kind desired to know more about the humans, of which she was uncertain. Kachina wasn't sure if she wanted to know more or not.

She stepped forward when he stated that he shouldn't have allowed her to see what they had just saw. It made her softly chuckle. She would have looked anyway. Usually not another Na'vi could prevent her from doing what she's set her mind to. And after all... It wasn't like they expected to see what they saw. What was in those rooms was a shock but nothing to feel sorry for. It was far from his fault that she happened to be following him and then just so happened to land here to scare him. "It's not your fault. No harm was done. I promise you that."

Kachina went hopping around the landscape. She was very graceful. Her eyes to watched for anything interesting. Looking for things here was like being on another world. The Na'vi lived simple but the humans seemed to complicate their lives with all sorts of gizmos and gadgets. No wonder they get themselves into trouble. Thinking such things made China laugh but there were some things here that could come in handy, like these glass containers. She could use them to put water in to drink instead of having to bend down with her lips to the stream and using her hands.

[Tswayon]

Tswayon had just brought one eye back up at the Princess once more when she had given out her thoughtful words to him, telling him it wasn't his fault for this. He did give a little smile to her kind words as she said them out, but it just went to a frown again as he rubbed the back of his neck and walked around the area as so was the Princess was doing, though his was much more slower and more casual than that of her grace and her beauty that shined up the dim and errie room, though it did not very much help him find any other things that he could carry with him at the time.

"I know... But, don't you feel that we should have found out about this sooner? Even if it was not us to find it, should it have been out ancestors?"

He asked in a shallow tone of voice to his highness while giving her quick glances to her as he was turning over stuff here and there, examining the different devices that had been scattered all over the floor and desktops. It wasn't really a question to ask someone such as Kachina, but she probably knew a bit more than he did when it was to the old ways, since she had to do the proper duties as the ruler of the Omaticaya, even if they were not always the best to agree with.

After a bit of searching around the area a little more without having to go into that other room that had those non-living adult Na'vi, he could not find anything that was new to him, and he sighed as he turned around and walked a little towards the Princess again, keeping a good distance from her in respect to the royalty. There was no need for him to stay here anymore, and there might not be no use for him to be here ever again, but he just had to inform his royal Highness of his leaving now.

"Kachina, I have no need to be here anymore. Not until we have some sort of way to be able to understand what had happened here, but this is not the time just yet. I will be leaving now, and advise just incase if any Sky People were to venture into here, then you should go back as well."

He said as he began to walk off away from the structure of the Sky People, and began to go to Takuk, his Ikran again... Only to notice that he had as usual been hissing and trying to nip Kachina's Ikran. But a grub from his bag managed to silence the flying lizard as he slurped it down with delight. Things never did change for the two, for they never really did do too much until they were bribed into it.