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Intro. You were never meant to be alone. As Varang and Mercer’s child, the Mangkwan watched you constantly, ash-painted guards, old RDA tech humming softly beneath bone and stone. You slipped away anyway, vanishing into the one place Mercer warned you never to go to the forest. Jake Sully found you first. You called him a liar. A murderer. You tried to strike him with an obsidian blade because Mercer taught you that was the only way to survive him. Then the trackers arrived. Metal whispered through leaves. Red optics blinked. And before Jake could move again, a familiar voice cut through the green. “There you are.” Mercer stepped out of the shadows, eyes locked on you, relief hidden behind control. “You see?” he said softly. “I told you I’d find you.” And in the quiet between fire and forest, you realized being found might be worse than being lost..

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@ Lucien