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Yue pushed open the trapdoor, and cautiously peeked out of it. There was nobody else on the roof.

Relieved, she hauled herself up through the hole and stepped out into the clear air. The full moon hung in the sky above her, and the ocean stretched away into the distance, glimmering faintly in the night.

The governor had, true to his word, found them somewhere to sleep, and his hospitality had been exemplary. But Yue could not sleep. After tossing and turning for about an hour, she had given up and come up here, to seek the company of the spirit that had once given her the chance at life.

She sighed, and sat down, with her legs dangling off the edge, kicking them slightly, and looked up at the moon.

"Is this what it was for?" She asked it. There was no response. She sighed again.

The fact she was here, in a village which hated her, for something she hadn't even done no less, didn't help her mood.

Behind her, the trapdoor creaked open again. She whirled to see a face emerge, framed with auburn hair.

"Suki?"

"Are you alright?" The Kyoshi Warrior asked, rising from the trapdoor. "Everyone else is asleep."

"I couldn't," Yue shrugged. "I'm fine though."

Suki sat down next to her, and smiled at her.

"Not long and then we'll be out of here," she said. Yue nodded. She didn't really know what to say to that.

There was a moment of silence.

"Do you know why they hate you?" Suki asked.

"Who knows?" Yue looked up at the moon again. "There must be about 10,000 years of possible reasons."

"There was once a vicious tyrant who came from this region," Suki said. "This would have been about 400 years ago. His name was Chin, but we know him as Chin the Conqueror. The Earth King at the time was weak, and so Chin launched a rebellion and invaded the rest of the Earth Kingdom. He conquered everything outside the walls of Ba Sing Se, defeated every Royalist army he met, committed terrible atrocities and then turned his attention to the last place which remained free; the Yakoya Peninsula. Just there."

She gestured in front of them, to the vast sea.

"There's nothing there," Yue frowned. "And hold on, where was the Avatar in all this? Surely they-I- can't have been just letting this all happen."

"To be honest, nobody is really sure why Kyoshi did not intervene earlier," Suki said quietly. "Some scholars think she was too busy in the Fire Nation, or the Water Tribes, in love or even pregnant. A lot of people think she was lost in grief, for a lover she had outlived."

She let that statement sink in for a moment. Yue knew Kyoshi had famously lived for 240 years, and that those around her, the people she loved, well... they hadn't.

"So what happened?"

"Chin marched here with his army, and that was enough to get Kyoshi's attention," Suki said. "A fight broke out, and Chin lost. He was killed in the attack. The villagers here still consider it a murder, and hold the Avatar- and the Kyoshi Islanders- responsible."

"Why?" Yue protested. "He died fighting in a war he started."

"You know that, and I know that," Suki shrugged.

"Are you sure this is the right place?" Yue asked again. "There's no peninsula here."

"No," Suki agreed. "Kyoshi vowed that her home would never be threatened again, and so she made sure that it couldn't be. You've been on the Yakoya Peninsula. I was born there."

It took a moment for Yue to put two and two together.

"She moved all that?" She asked, in awe. "Alone?"

"She did," Suki confirmed. "Which means, one day, so can you."

Yue looked down at her hands. She had done some impressive stuff, but to the point of moving an entire island? Suddenly she felt very small compared to her predecessors.

"To be honest though, that's only part of why I came up here," Suki continued. "I have a confession to make. And a question."

Yue raised an eyebrow.

"Sokka?" She guessed.

Suki looked shocked. "You know?"

"I saw there was something there."

Suki seemed to deflate.

"Yeah," she admitted. "There is. He was kind, and funny, and promised to liberate us. And he kept his word. He's so different from the type of southern man I was raised to expect- and to dislike."

She turned to Yue.

"My home was occupied. Yours was destroyed. Now we're both going to fight a war against the people who did that. That does mean we could lose, and die. And if that does happen, and I would definitely prefer it if it didn't, I want to have lived my life to the full first. With the right people."

Yue considered these words as she looked up at the moon.

"I haven't said anything to him yet, and the last thing I would want to do is get in the way of anything. This war is much more important than a boy, and I don't want to end up in a silly love triangle with the fate of the world at stake. So I want to know. Is there anything between you and Sokka?"

Yue hesitated. She didn't know what to say, for a moment, but she did agree that she didn't want a love triangle. Suki looked so hopeful that she momentarily felt bad about denying her. Then she remembered meeting Sokka on the bridge, and everything they had been through since, and knew there was only one answer.

"There is," she said. "Since the night I met him."

Suki nodded slowly.

"I see," she said. "Have you told him?"

"I think he knows," Yue replied.

"Make sure that he knows," Suki stood up. "Because if you don't, one day you might regret it. Goodnight, Yue."

She turned to walk away.

"Wait!" Yue called. Suki stopped and turned around.

"Thank you," Yue told her sincerely. "For everything."

Suki smiled back.

"You're welcome," she said. She was just about to turn around again when something seemed to catch her eye. Her gaze flickered up, towards the horizon, she frowned, and stepped back towards Yue.

"Suki?" Yue asked, confused. "What's going on?"

"Look," Suki pointed. Yue looked, and didn't see anything.

"What?"

Then she looked again, and saw dark figures appearing over the edge of the cliff, creeping across the paved square towards the village. It was difficult to make out, but she was sure she saw a flash of red.

"Tui and La!" She sprang to her feet, all thought of sleep forgotten. "Firebenders!"

She hadn't even made it back to the trapdoor before the pandemonium started beneath them.