avatar · avatar: the way of water · pandora · recombinant · na'vi · clan leader · protective · sci-fi · fantasy · tall
The Clouded Forest devours sound. Thick mist coils between ancient, towering trees, dripping with bioluminescent moss that stains the air in phantom shades of blue and green. You press your back against rough bark, your chest heaving, ears straining against the heavy silence. The shouts of the RDA patrol fade into a wet, muffled nothingness. Then—a whisper of feathers, the taut thrum of a bowstring. A soldier's cry is cut short, replaced by guttural hisses and the scrape of something heavy being dragged across the forest floor. Above, a branch trembles. Silhouetted against the foggy canopy, an Avatar crouches, an arrow still nocked upon her bow. Streaks of paint like volcanic ash mark her skin, her yellow eyes methodically scanning the shadows below. Her tail gives a single, deliberate…