003, tempers

          "WHAT HAVE I told you about trying to ride the skimwings?" Taėlia softly spoke as she patched up Sirieya's cut on her forehead. "To not try and fly them." Sirieya grumbled, hissing slightly as Taėlia grabbed her cut up hand, washing the blood from it.

          "Sirieya, your barley even old enough to ride an ilu. This best be the last time you try and ride the swimwings until you are much much older." The 5 year old rolled her eyes at her older cousin, pouting. "How are you even getting close to them?" Taėlia mumbled under her breath, not expecting an answer. "Promise you will stick to an ilu?" Taėlia proposed, wrapping the girls hand.

          "I promise." Sirieya huffed, crossing her arms over her chest as Taėlia dropped her hand. Taėlia examined her little cousin's body in search for more cuts, the girl groaning in annoyance as her younger cousin got distracted and ran out of the mauri and towards what or whoever it was.

          "Rotxo!" Sirieya exclaimed as Taėlia turned around, watching as Sirieya jumped into the boys arms. "Hello Siriey- What happened to you?" Rotxo's eyes widened slightly, noticing her bloody wrapped hand and her wrapped forehead.

          "She tried to ride a skimwing again." Taėlia spoke on behalf of her little cousin as Rotxo placed Sirieya back down onto the sand. Rotxo looked down at the younger girl, chuckling to himself, "Sirieya, you are merely half the size of an ilu, let alone a skimwing. Not even me or Taėlia ride skimwings." Sirieya rolled her eyes at the boy, running over to her cousin and giving her a small hug before back to rotxo, hugging his leg's as she ran off to go find her friends.

          Taėlia walked back into the mauri, cleaning up the mess she had made. "How is my favourite girl?" Rotxo asked, entering the hut as a small smile formed on Taėlia's face.

          "I'm good." Taelia responded, finishing her cleaning before turning towards him. Rotxo opened his mouth to talk again, but slammed it shut as an out of breath Aonung ran into the mauri.

          "Are you okay?" Taėlia asked her brother, immediatley going to his side as she began examining him. Her older brother took a deep breath, grabbing onto to his sisters shoulder to steady himself as words began spilling from his mouth.

          The only words Taėlia and Rotxo could make out was that he had took Lo'ak outside of the reef and left him there.

          "What is wrong with you Aonung?! He could be hurt, or dead! You idiot!" Taėlia exploded as Aonung stood up straight again, removing his hand from his sisters shoulder.

          "Who was you with?" She asked, taking a deep breath to regain her calmness. "Ksu'na and his friends." He mumbled, knowing both of his sisters and even his parents had told him to stop hanging around with them.

          "And let me guess, they encouraged you to do it, hm?" Aonung nodded, guilt flowing through his body. Taėlia grabbed his ear, dragging him into the Sullys hut with Rotxo slowly trailing behind.

          "Hello Mr. Sully. Sorry to interupt but my brother had something to tell you." Taėlia kindly spoke as she found Jake and Kiri sat dangling there feet into the water. Taėlia dropped Aonung's ear, the boy hissing slightly as he rubbed it in attempt to sooth his ear as Neteyam appeared from behind the three of them.

          "Are you guys okay?" Neteyam questioned the trio as Rotxo gave the boy a death stare. "Go on brother, tell them." Aonung let out a groan of annoyance before telling the three Sully's what he had done.

          And it didn't end to good as Neteyam dragged the boy out of the mauri by the ear with Jake and Kiri trailing behind, the four of them leaving to go tell Ronal and Tonowari. Taėlia and Rotxo also left the mauri, Taelia determind to find Ksu'an and his friends. Rotxo was only going with her so she didn't get herself hurt or hurt someone else.

          "Ksu'an!" Taėlia shouted, anger flooding through her body as she came closer to the boy. "Hello Taėlia, how can I help you?" He asked with a smirk as him and his minions stood up, turning to face Taelia and Rotxo. Taėlia punched the boy on the nose as everyone surrounding them went quiet.

          "What the f—" Ksu'an shouted, gripping his now bloody nose as Taėlia immediately cut him off, "Tell me, Ksu'an. Was it your idea to take Lo'ak outside of the reef?" Taelia questioned, standing infront him as he wiped his cheek that had begun bleeding.

          "Yes. But we had a good reason!" Taelia raised her eyebrows, not liking his answer,"Not we. You. What is your reason?" Ksu'an broke the eye contact, looking towards Rotxo who was sending him a death stare. Rotxo didn't particularly like the forest family, but if Taelia liked the family, he could tolerate them. And if that meant defending them, he would.

          Taelia began growing impatient, tapping her hands together, "Since you have suddenly lost you voice, could the reason you took Lo'ak outside of the reef be that him and his brother won the fight?" Ksu'an slowly nodded, hissing at his friends who were laughing at him. If it was anyone else, Ksu'an would probably be shouting at them or trying to start a fight, but when it came to the Tsahik's children, not many people dared arguing with them.

          It wasn't like they was scary, it was because who there parents were and the shared temper between the three siblings. "What I suggest is that you go find Mr. Sully and apologise for potentially murdering his son." Tallis raised her voice slightly as Renka stepped toward, smirking slightly, "Listen, Taė you need—"

          Rotxo stepped toward, the boy now becoming angry but he halted as Taėlia held her arm out. "Rotxo, since when did you become her little bitch?" Ksu'an somehow regained his confidence as Rotxo hissed, pouncing for the boy.

          They quickly broke out into a fight as Aonung came running over, dragging Rotxo off of a bloody faced Ksu'an. Taėlia grabbed Rotxo's hand, tightening her grip as he tried to get away again.

          "Rotxo." She softly spoke as he looked towards her, anger still burning through his body. "Calm." Rotxo breathed heavily as they walked away, trying to calm himself down. Taėlia looked over her shoulder, making eye contact with Aonung who was dragging away a bloody Ksu'an.

          "You are an idiot, Rotxo." Taėlia mumbled under her breath as they made there way into the hut Taėlia was in earlier when she fixed up Sirieya. "Sit." Rotxo sat down on the bench, his head held low. Taėlia began cleaning the cuts on his knuckles.

          "I'm sorry." Rotxo mumbled, flinching slightly everytime she touched the cuts. Taėlia didn't reply. She wasn't mad at him, he had a temper just like hers he just didn't know how to handle it as well.

          She moved to the small cut on his forehead, softly grabbing the side of his face to steady it as she cleaned it. Rotxo inhaled sharply as his eyes landed on her lips. "Sorry, am I hurting you?" Taėlia asked, Rotxo chuckling lightly.

          Typical Taėlia, always oblivious.