Alva's legs pumped steadily under her as she rushed across the giant branches. Her plump lips were curled up in a grin as she grinned back at Tsu'tey before pushing herself to go faster, making wind push through her mostly loose hair.

"You will never catch me!" She giggled and took a sharp turn to the right, grabbing onto a branch in one fluid motion, using the momentum of the turn to swing herself to the branch. Alva's anklet jingled with each powerful step, adding a beat to the music flowing all around her and the low baritone voice of Tsu'tey.

"I will always catch you, Alva." Tsu'tey swore and Alva saw that he too jumped onto the same branch as she was running on, though he took on long, strong leap instead of swinging like a monkey. He made almost no sounds as he moved but Alva could feel his presence, knowing that he was never too far behind her.

She laughed and dropped down to the branch running below the one she was previously on and nodded to the family of insects she could see lazing in the sunshine. Alva couldn't remember how exactly they started the game of chase again, if anything she thought they never stopped it. It was always a chase, a game of tag. Now she was being hunted and he the hunter.

"No way!" Alva shot back and ducked under a low hanging smaller branch full with green leaves and crawling ant-like creatures that stared at her as she rushed below them. A few of them dropped on her shoulders but Alva didn't mind carrying a few passengers to victory if it meant seeing the look on Tsu'tey's face when he lost again.

Just before she grabbed onto a small part of the branch she was running on that extended to the left she felt a swish of air hit her arm. As Alva swung towards the ground with her feet curled around the branch she saw Tsu'tey staring at her, panting softly and with brow bones raised. The dreamwalker saluted him before dropped to the ground smoothly and rushing away from him, her sweet giggles lingering behind her.

Alva could see flashes of black and a set of razor sharp teeth following her, stalking her from the shadows. She smiled and waved at her animal friend before scaling another tree and rushing down the short branches it provided her. By now Tsu'tey should be behind her but she couldn't feel him, or hear him. Strange, she thought, but kept on running, she didn't want him to ambush her and turn their game around. Alva had never been good at hunting, but she was good at running.

"I told you I would always catch you." A husky voice told her, his words strongly accented but holding more charm to them than Alva had ever heard one voice contain before, unconsciously too. A warm hand catched her wrist and she chuckled before spinning around to meet her former hunter and now captor.

Alva shook her head and placed a hand on top of his. "I can't be catched, I can only be held." Her eyes sparkled before she broke free of his hold on her wrist. "And you will always have to fight to keep me, remember that 'Sey. Fight for me." Alva winked before bounding away from him and up a different tree, leaving him to once again stare after her before he followed her with a determined look on his face.

Their game of chase and tag was on again, and Alva had refused to be the hunter once more. Her curly locks flowed around her like a waterfall of inky black with a few strands braided like her old auntie used to do back home, and with some flowers messily pushed into some of them that brought a splash of color to her mane. Her tail hit the body of a tree to leave a mark for Tsu'tey to track and she smirked back at it.

"Catch me, 'Sey." Alva chuckled as her tail flicked against yet another trunk, being careful not to hurt the tree but to leave a mark for her hunter to catch onto. She gasped and her eyes widened as she saw the most beautiful tree she had ever seen, except for the hometree. It was large, with a wide, powerful crown filled with flourishing green plants that she would bet her body on would light up in a illuminating neon green that she would be able to see from the hometree, and the body of it a mixture of baby blue and neon blue.

"You know what, my strong warrior? I might let you win this round." Her voice turned dreamy and she practically floated towards the tree she would let him catch her on. She would sacrifice this for the tree.

Already she could feel his presence coming closer but her focus was on the tree she was getting closer too. It looked to be taller than the kelutral and at least twice as thick as the hollowed tree they lived in. It looked gorgeous, to Alva, inviting her in with the huge branches that snaked around its massive body and the flora growing on it, the life it supported, it all appealed to her. Maybe one day she would spend a night or two there, maybe she would even let Tsu'tey or Tru'iel come. Maybe.

Her arms grabbed onto a small branch and pulled her up, only making her let out a small groan at her own weight before she could comfortably stand on the lowest of the branches. Alva placed her palm on the trunk before resting her forehead on the bark, muttering a greeting and throwing it a grin coupled with twinkling, dreamy eyes. She felt the tree warm up and the groans it let out as the wind passed through its branches was its greetings back to her. She exhaled softly, feeling the tree shifting and the energy inside of it flowing, the energy of Eywa, of Pandora and of life.

She giggled before forcing herself away from the bark of the tree and to keep on climbing up until she would reach the top, there Alva would wait for her teacher and best-friend. There she would allow him to catch her so that they could share the view and hopeful there she could break more of his icy exterior and learn more about Tsu'tey and not about his warrior facade. Alva grabbed branch after branch as she skillfully and expertly climbed up the great tree, even feeling the tree helping her sometimes and the wind whispering its soft-spoken songs from Eywa to her. She hummed an old song her sister sang to her right before her sister left their family for a better life somewhere else. The melody of it was sad but hopeful, a song about new beginnings and embracing yourself and your dreams. This was Alva's better life somewhere else, and she prayed that her sister had found hers.

Alva hit the climax of the song, a high-pitched note that would ring until it hit a drop and would fall back to an almost breathy chorus followed by a series of low cries. She plopped down on the branch, swinging her toned, muscular legs back and forth as she stared mesmerized at the view she had found. She could see so many trees, and she could see packs of ikran flying above and below her, she could see prolemuris swinging in the branches and she could see Pandora. The trees that sparkled, the water rushing to give the inhabitants of the massive moon life, the winds singing to her people and Eywa watching over her children with a soft smile and open arms. This was her home. She lived and breathed Pandora.

The sun gave her a soft glow and a beaming smile was on her face as Tsu'tey finally climbed up to the branch she was sitting on, his chest gently heaving and pants flowing out of him. He had a neutral face but his eyes betrayed him with the gleam of playfulness that danced in them.

"I have caught you again." He told her and grabbed her wrist once again, being mindful not to press down too hard on her many bracelets. He turned her wrist around to check the accessories out before letting her wrist fall back on her lap.

Alva giggled and turned her glowing face towards him. "So it would seem. Isn't it beautiful?"

He turned towards where she was looking and a soft smile grazed his lips. "It is Pandora. My home is always beautiful."

"Of course it is, silly." Alva chuckled before sighing. "But some people just can't wait to destroy beautiful things."

He shook his head and hissed angrily. "Humans come and destroy my home, send sky people in false bodies and kill my people. Eywa is angry, can't you feel it? One day I will make them leave, one day Pandora will be right again, free from the demons."

"I always feel Eywa around me. I can feel her now, in the soft caressing winds." Alva ghosted a finger down her arm. "In the sun glowing down on me." She stroked a hand down her cheek where a ray of sunshine danced on her blue face. "In the energy around me." Alva patted the branch they were sat upon before turning to him once more, eyes unforgiving and a sad smile playing at her lips. "Humans destroy what they touch, Eywa knows it, I know it, the Na'vi know it and the humans know it. Don't worry, Tsu'tey, soon life will be good again. No more demons running around and no more sky people poisoning your lands."

"Will you go with them or will you stay?"

"Stay." Alva breathed out and nodded her head. "I don't belong with them. Pandora is my home and Eywa is my goddess. I could never go back with them." Her voice held a slight tone of sorrow to it. "I'll be sad to see Parker go but it's for the best, this is not his better life somewhere."

Tsu'tey nodded, his face unreadable and hands clenching the wood. "When you become one of the people-"

"When?" She grinned at him. He looked at her confused and a bit irritated that she interrupted him. "You said when, not if, meaning you think I will become one of the people. I'm glad you believe in me, even if I'm a demon in a false body." She winked at him and stood up, about to get to one branch higher and see it the view was different from there.

"Do not walk away from me, bug." He called after her and sprung to his feet. "Give up."

"Give up what?"

"You know what I mean." He frowned at her and she grinned at him.

"Maybe I do, maybe I don't." She threw back at him and curled her tail around the new branch she had climbed up on in case she was going to slip and fall. "Either way I'm not giving up."

He snorted and easily pulled himself up to the branch she was on. "Give up or I will-"

"Will what?" She asked him sceptically, a mocking grin on her lips and hand on her cocked hip. "You will what, hunter?"

"I will push you." He eventually answered, his eyes lighting up as he thought of something clever. "I will push you off this branch." His chest puffed as if he was proud of his comeback but Alva just chuckled and walked closer to him, her tail still curled around the branch.

"I bet you won't." She dared him, showing a sliver of her canines and she poked his nose.

Tsu'tey scowled and took a step forwards before placing his strong hands on her shoulders and shoving her over the edge. Alva squealed but swung right up again with a bubbling laugh. The Na'vi hissed and shoved her again, trying to prove that he would indeed push her down the branch.

"That's not nice." She pouted but her face was lit up and mouth open in loud, squealing laughter that made her slouch slightly.

Tsu'tey pushed her once again but like the other times she swung right up again. Alva sighed and uncurled her tail from the branch, showing her trust in him and lifted her arms into the air. "Do it, 'Sey." She winked at him and giggled when he didn't once look at where her tail was, about to give him a big scare.

He smirked at her before pushing her once again, making her this time fall begin to fall off the branch, her toes tingling and hair rising as she was preparing herself to free-fall down a massive tree and possibly rush to her death, again. Alva stared up at him as she tipped over the edge and stretched out a hand to him, showing him that he could save her, placing her whole trust in him to pull her up and save her. This time it was his turn to show his loyalty, to show his willingness for this.

"Fight for me." She whispered and closed her eyes, feeling her feet slip from the edge and wind flying through her hair. She could feel Eywa embracing her and the cry that Kida let out but she smiled through it all. Alva knew he would save her.

A strong, powerful hand caught hers and tugged her back on the branch and she giggled before opening her eyes again, seeing Tsu'tey's stunned and shocked look.

"Didn't expect it to work?" Alva giggled and placed her hand on his heart, feeling the way it rushed, like it was almost about to jump out of his chest. "You said you were always going to catch me, and you did. My strong warrior, always looking out for me." She breathed out and rested her forehead next to her hand before turning on her feet and walking away from him, throwing a dreamy wink at him and a tug of her lips. "I see you, Tsu'tey."