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"A few hundred steps from the gates, an arrow flies through the air and pierces Nicolò’s throat, the pointed tip ripping through his jugular between one blink and the next. He falls backward, choking on his own blood while his fellow crusaders march onward to the wall.
He dies there, too ashamed to offer himself up to God, deciding instead to let his soul rot into the ground, let his body become a home to the insects and the flies.
(In another universe, the archer is jostled at the last second and the arrow fails to find its mark. Yusuf al-Kaysani meets you at the wall. You kill each other, and then rise up from the dead and repeat the process.)"
A story about forgiveness and letting go, in three parts.
Series
- Part 2 of Beyond Measure and Reason
- Part 1 of certain dark things
Bookmarked by Qannj
15 Aug 2022