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Beyond Measure and Reason by quincette
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Comics), The Old Guard (Movie 2020)
18 Jul 2020
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Summary
"I wish you're not so eager to meet your death, Al-Tayyib," he said, slapping Yusuf's back. "Let your 72 virgins wait a little longer in heaven, eh?" he grinned.
Yusuf grimaced. He never was one to hang on to that heavenly promise. Seventy-two virgins. What would you do with 72 virgins? What do 72 virgins know? He didn't even think he knew what to do with one virgin. Seventy-two virgins in heaven sounded like an epic chore.
He had had so many questions on that subject that he's sure they would have declared him a heretic had he not been so good at fighting.
Eyes in the colour of gloomy sky and hair like the sand of Judaean desert came to his mind, unbidden. Though it's impossible he would find the owner on the battlefield again. Yusuf had killed him last time.
Hell, he thought they had killed each other.
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Or, the five times Yusuf and Nicolo killed each other and the one time they didn't.