#tsokaha

[dragonofpandora]

We take a break from the current mini-plot to bring you a design for the Kìlsani Tsahìk, Tsokaha. Don’t ask me what’s up with his mate the Olo’eyktan, I genuinely do not know (yet). All I know is that Tsokaha is the most compassionate being to ever grace Eywa’eveng and im lov him

[dragonofpandora]

(-What happened? -Thanator. -We chased the thanator away, but it almost caught her. She lost a lot of blood. And her queue… -…I will do what I can. -Tsahik? -Yes. Do you understand me? -(no answer) -…May I have forgiveness, sister. -We are one, sister. -Now as always.)

I promised Irwi’s story, so... have some moments.

A note regarding my translation choices with Tsokaha, the Kìlsani Tsahìk: he tends to put his words in order of most important to least important, rather than putting the most important word at the end of a sentence for emphasis, theoretically because a very sick or out-of-it patient is more likely to catch the beginning of a sentence than the end. (I don’t know if that’s actually true, and it might actually be the opposite for some people, but... it’s fine jkfjdgs)

[dragonofpandora]

(-mmrr... Tsahik? -Yes, I'm here. I'm glad that you wake. What do you feel? -...Pain. (My) leg, and he- -...The palulukan caught (your) queue. The wound near the skull will heal, but the lower part... There was nothing I could do (and I hate that). -I feel your pain, like stones in my heart. I wish I could help you.)

Waking up after that injury was... traumatic, let’s just say that.

Translator’s note: the “my” and “your” are skipped in the Na’vi text not intentionally but because I keep forgetting that that’s oeri and not oeyä, oeri has to be at the start of the phrase, and it was clear enough in context whose body parts were being talked about that I didn’t feel the need to erase the whole sentence and rewrite it each time I realized.