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Summary
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.