Title- Never Again Green
Author- Melon
Rating- G
Genre(s)- Family/Spiritual/Angst
Characters/Pairings- Yue & Arnook
Summary- Yue has always been a strange child...

A/N- It's stupid and drabbley but it was bugging me and maybe if I get this out of my head I'll actually get the next chapter of Fireflight written.

Yue was always a bit of a strange child. Where her peers were wild and exuberant, she was serene and far wiser than a girl less than ten years old had any right to be. She was certainly as energetic and youthful as the other children her age, but she was quiet about it, and almost painfully earnest in everything she did and said.

When she was a little girl, she liked to go to the Spirit Oasis. To those who knew the secret folded into every beat of her young heart, this was not so surprising. All members of their tribe had a special connection to that place, and Yue more than any of them, although few outside her family understood why. Arnook would watch her run barefoot across the grass, laughing, silver-white hair unbound, and he would struggle to come to terms with his love for his daughter.

It scared him, sometimes. He knew, sooner or later, that he would have to let her go. His visions had sealed that certainty in his heart, long ago. And yet he could not harden his heart against his only child.

When she was seven, she sat on the bank and dipped her toes in the sacred pool.

The white koi broke away from its partner, something Arnook had never seen in all his thirty-nine years, and swam to greet her. Yue laughed and let the fish nibble at her toes. Her eyes shone too bright and the black koi swam aimlessly in circles, lost without its partner, but the white fish and his daughter played teasing little games, as only animals and young children can, and he did not have the heart to disturb them.

Later, Yue asked her father why he was crying.