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"I've missed this," Wu murmurs against him, the words ghosting across Mako's skin. "Missed just being with you." He raises himself up onto one elbow, hovering over Mako and scanning his face like he wants to freeze the clock between one second and the next and commit every last detail to memory. One of his eyes shines like a jewel in the silvery light of the moon while his once carefully coiffed curls—made a ruin by Mako's roving hands—hang in a loose, shimmering wave over his forehead and cast the other into deep shadow.
It knocks the breath from Mako's lungs, and for a moment he can only stare back. In his mind's eye he watches every version of Wu he'd known and loved—and those he'd yet to meet—converge at a single fixed point above him, into a man not quite old but no longer young, and just as beautiful as he'd been the day he'd flounced his way into Mako's world like it belonged to him, too.
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In which crimes against breakfast are uncovered, Mako regains some perspective, responsibilities are shirked, old faces appear in new places, and time plods on and on. Set roughly 35 years after the events of Ruins of the Empire.