Chapter 1: Military Children

Neteyam has no excuse to stay sober and he does not want to. It is only around five in the afternoon. Ao'nung does not turn down a bottle of passion fruit & orange cider. The young surfer has no idea how the swooning girls did not figure out that Neteyam plays for the other team yet. Perhaps it is because Lo'ak is an absolute buffon and openly flirts with Tsireya. Maybe they think Neteyam is the same.

Neteyam does not have a bottle opener. He has a small knife on him - military brat - and he hits it against the bottle's cap, knocking it off clean with one strike. It's his party trick. Ao'nung always breaks the bottle when he tries to do this.

[Photos on cover from Pinterest]