that simple

In the end, none of the apologies got given. None of the carefully prepared I may have been mistaken in my beliefs or the I should have listened to you rather than my sister or even the simple I was wrong. I'm sorry.

I'm sorry.

Iroh clapped him on the shoulder, smiled, then turned back to assess the situation, and Zuko could finally breathe, for what seemed the first time in months.

And it was only later that he remembered what had been odd about it. That Iroh had seemed a fraction shorter than before.

As if Zuko had grown.

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