1 Work by I_Would_Prefer_Not_To
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After the battle at the Cove of the Ancestors, Neytiri has nightmares.
Sometimes it’s Toruk, falling from the sky in a single bright line, broken and riderless. A harbinger of doom, of the end of the world as they know it. Jake is there, falling below him, and then he is not, because Jake is Toruk, and how could he be in two places at once?
Either way, the ending stays the same. They disappear beneath the waves, never to be seen again.
Then, there’s the Mangkwan. Their Tsahìk forces Neytiri to her knees, filling her mind in a cruel mockery of tsaheylu, and she wants to run, to do anything to make this terrible, disgusting feeling stop—
It doesn’t stop. And as she lies there on the cold, soulless metal of the ship, Varang makes her watch as she plunges her knife in her children, one by one, starting with Tuk.
Sometimes, the nightmare ends there. Jake shakes her awake, her torment having woken him first, and holds her close till her sobs quieten into something that won’t make the whole family jump to their feet in the middle of the night.
And sometimes, just sometimes, the Witch slithers into the Sully marui as they prepare for dinner, and takes a seat.