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  1. Public Bookmark 13

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    The scream is shattering.  Ao'nung jumps and the armband he was working on tumbles from his hands as they tremble on instinct.  He can feel the pressure of his ears, flat to his skull.

    Ao'nung swallows thickly and sits back on his haunches.  Today, things were shattered and torn apart at the seams.  And still, Ao'nung just watched.

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    26 Jan 2026

  2. Public Bookmark 24

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    "Demon!!  To hell with you!" He bellows,

    There is a lake of blood beneath them now and the woman's muscles shudder as her eyes roll back in her mauled face.

    Neteyam stares back unblinking.  "I do not die."

    The burning light of the nearing eclipse makes the crimson on Neteyam's skin the color of fire.  He tilts his head and pulls back his lip to show bloody fangs, "Go."

     

    aka The Skirmish at the Three Brothers Rocks goes a little differently
    And Neteyam is his mother's son.

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  3. Public Bookmark 28

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    Lo'ak reflects on his choices after a harsh conversation with his father. Neteyam and his friends are always there to help.

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    26 Jan 2026

  4. Public Bookmark 41

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    Something was clearly wrong.

    Neteyam confided in his family about this 'problem' he had been encountering ever since he made amends with the metkayina's oloeyktan's son.

    "It's…weird," Neteyam stressed, scratching the back of his head in confusion while everyone else gathered around him in their family marui, attentively listening. "One moment he was tolerable, and the next- and the next it feels like he's purposely getting on my nerves, you know?" he pressed on, losing his mind over something so trivial.

    Tuk spoke up first to give her opinion: "Maybe he's just being nostalgic?"

    Neteyam furrowed his eyes. "Why would 'making me mad' be nostalgic?"

    "Because that's all the two of you used to do some weeks ago!" Tuk reasoned, looking more and more sure of her deduction as seconds passed by.

    Patting Neteyam's shoulder a couple of times, Toruk Makto said, "It's been so long since I heard anyone use this word, but…

    "Son, I'm pretty sure he's ragebaiting you."

     

    or five times Neteyam fell for ragebait. (Aonung was exactly where he wanted to be.)

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    25 Jan 2026

  5. Public Bookmark 47

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    Fire and Water do not mix easily.

    Neteyam the dutiful eldest son of Toruk Makto carries the weight of his family's safety on his shoulders he cannot afford to fail at learning the ways of the reef. Aonung the prideful prince of the Metkayine resents the intrusion of the new people and the task of teaching them he finds Neteyam's stiff discipline arrogant and annoying. But disdain turns to curiosity when Aonung witnesses Neteyam's secret exhausting late night struggles in the water drawn together by the shared pressure of expectation an unspoken truce forms in the darkness of the reef.

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    25 Jan 2026