He had warned her against it. Going back, that is. Looking back in on a life, on a world she could never be part of again… it wouldn't bring her the kind of closure she wanted. But she, being new, and lacking all the wisdom and experience he possessed, and still desperately trying to hold on to what she once was, refused to listen. So he silently observed, never far behind her as she wandered all the places she used to go, all the people she used to know… especially that boy. She watched all the people she knew, and didn't know, laughing, crying, hating, loving, having all the things she could never have, doing all the things she could never do, all those people, just…living.
She watched for a long time before turning back to him, shimmering tears threatening to fall from her crystalline eyes. "I can't- I can't go on," she said. "It all goes so fast, we don't even have time to look at one another! I didn't realize! All that was going on in life and I never noticed…Take me back. Back to the stars, to the sky. But first…" She glanced back to the endless parade of faces and voices longingly. "Wait! One more look. Goodbye, goodbye, world. Goodbye, palace, Mama and Papa. Goodbye to burning candles, and Mama's snow-lillies. And food and tea. And new dresses and hot baths, and sleeping and waking up. Oh, earth, you're too wonderful for anybody to realize you!" She turns back to him, the tears now flowing freely down her translucent face. "Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it? Every, every minute?" She paused, sadness and comprehension filling her pristine features. "I'm ready to go back." He finally opened his mouth to speak.
"Were you happy?"
"No. I should have listened to you. But that's what human beings are… just blind people." And La, the Spirit of the Moon, once known as Princess Yue of the Northern Water Tribe ascended towards the heavens.
She never looked back.
A/N: Yep, I finally did one about Yue. I got the inspiration (and Yue's monologue)from episode 17 of My So Called Life, where Rayanne does this monologue from Our Town (which I DO NOT own!). The scene really moved me, so I felt compelled to write a drabble, so here you have it! Oh, and just so everyone knows what's NOT mine, I put the quotations for the monologue in italics. I did however, change a couple of words to fit the Avatar world. I take credit for about 10 of this drabble. The other 90 goes to Winnie Holtzman (the creator and producer of MSCL) and most of all, whoever wrote Our Town.