"I know," I say, without any uncertainty. I know it has a risk of changing things, of changing me, changing the way I see him, but it's a risk we've both gotta take.

"Don't forget who I am, Mike. Who we are."

The reason we work is because we get each other, and I can't understand something he's never let me see. We've been through so fucking much. Sometimes I think we've been through more than we both realize-- distant, starry fragments of lifetimes we lived miles and miles away from here.