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It was a full moon that night, and so Yue found herself tossing and turning in the pale moonlight until she just gave up trying to sleep. The light was so bright that she found it was possible for her to navigate around the house without any kind of lamp, and soon she had discovered the Beifong walled garden. It was just as luxurious as the interior of the house, obviously very well kept and surrounded by a white stone wall.

She was admiring a rhododendron when Sokka found her.

"Couldn't sleep?" He asked. "We've got to stop meeting by moonlight like this."

"I can't help it," Yue complained.

Sokka looked around, and then sat down on the grass, gesturing for Yue to sit beside him. She did.

"What's the problem?" He asked. "Why can't you sleep?"

"I don't know," Yue shrugged. "I thought I was tired. But then the moon came out."

Sokka didn't say anything for a long while. He seemed to be deep in thought. Then he spoke.

"Does this usually happen?" He asked. "Do you usually struggle to sleep on the night of the full moon?"

He leaned in a little closer.

"The first morning I knew you, when we were flying to the Northern Air Temple, you told me that the moon spirit saved your life when you were a baby. Could it be it's... affecting you somehow?"

Yue thought back. Now that she thought of it, there was a bit of a pattern. Usually it was just a little extra tossing and turning, and then she did manage to sleep. It was subtle enough to pass unnoticed. Rare was the night where she actually needed to get up and go for a walk.

"Maybe it is," she said. "Although it's never been this strong before, if that is what's causing it."

"Maybe now that you're awakening your Avatar powers, it's getting stronger," Sokka suggested.

"So I'd have a minimum of one guaranteed sleepless night every month for the rest of my life?" Yue frowned. "I'm not sure I like the idea of that. It might not even be that anyway. I have been... worrying lately, after all."

Now it was Sokka's turn to frown.

"Is it that fortune-teller again?" He said.

"I know what you think of her, but yes," Yue nodded. "I have to make some sacrifice. That's what she said. And I try not to think about it but it's hard to shake the feeling that-"

She hesitated.

"-That I'm doomed," she said. "Especially now it's come up in conversation last night. Makes it feel more real. And not in a fun way."

"We're all doomed," Sokka said. "Eventually. But she didn't say you'd sacrifice yourself, did she?"

"Thank you for the comforting words," Yue said with as much sarcasm as she could muster. "But no, she didn't."

"Then there are a hundred different things she could mean," Sokka told her. "And that's if she's even right. I'm not sure she is."

Yue leaned back and stared up at the sky. If not herself, then what else could she sacrifice?

The world? No, that would be an act of cowardice, and the world was the very thing she was trying to save anyway. That interpretation of the prophecy only held true assuming she lost, and she was hoping she wouldn't. So what? Her home was already destroyed, her people already scattered. Although at least the Fire Nation had enough respect to leave the sacred garden of Tui and La alone. Even they dared not mess with the spirits.

Her father was-

She stopped. Yue still didn't know what had happened to her father. She hoped he'd escaped, or was at the very least being kept alive by the Fire Nation, but assuming he was, he was a possibility. But the other possibility was one of her friends. Sokka, Katara, Rinzen, Suki and Gembul the Sky Bison.

Could she really do that? Sacrifice one of them if it meant ending the war? And would she be able to live with the consequences of that choice?

She sighed. Knowing even a snippet of the future did strange things to a person. She was beginning to wish she'd never set foot in Aunt Wu's tea shop.

"Er... Yue?" Sokka prompted, the silence having now lingered to the point it had become awkward. "Are you alright? We can change the subject."

He cast around.

"Hey, that's a nice, uh, tree isn't it? Don't you think?"

But there was another possibility, wasn't there, Yue reflected, watching him. Maybe what she had to give up wasn't physical at all. It could be emotional.

She looked at Sokka, still trying to get her to talk about steak instead of self-destruction, and the words of Suki, from a moonlit night much like this one, popped back into her mind:

We could lose, and die. And if that happens, and I would definitely prefer it if it didn't, I want to have lived my ife to the full first. With the right people. Make sure that he knows. Because if you don't, one day you might regret it.

"Sokka," Yue spoke suddenly, cutting Sokka off mid-flow.

"Yes?"

"I have something I need to tell you," Yue began. "Something I've been thinking about for a long time."

Sokka raised an eyebrow, but couldn't quite hide the hopeful grin on his face.

"Go on..."

Yue opened her mouth to tell him, but suddenly she heard faint footsteps on the ground behind her and blows falling on her back and arms. All strength left her, and she fell backwards into the carefully manicured grass. The last thing she saw before she slipped into unconsciousness was the night sky above her, and a hooded figure standing over her with fire and triumph in their eyes.