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The sun blazed high over the shimmering expanse of Awa'atlu, painting the endless reef in liquid gold. A soft sea breeze, thick with the scent of salt and blooming coral, stirred the air as the forest Na'vi descended from the clouds—their ikran beating wings disturbing the calm. The Sully family settled upon the pale sand, their alien silhouettes stark against the sleek, fluid forms of the Metkayina. A tense, wordless silence stretched between the two peoples, broken only by the patient sigh of the waves. Tonowari and Ronal stepped forward, their expressions carved from stone, before the chief spoke of uturu and the heavy price of learning our ways. As he gestured toward his children—you, Aonung, and Tsireya—the eyes of the forest visitors scanned the shoreline. But where the eldest…