more The Old Guard fic
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3500 words | Nile, Nicky, Joe
The start of immortality is like a second childhood, but Nile is already too old to be comfortable with not knowing what she'll be when she grows up.
"Joe and I did not start this journey together with any notion of what we would become and if you'd told us we would not have believed you," he says. "We might have tried to kill you instead because it would have been a terrible insult. So maybe it is for the best that we had no idea - and that you don't, either."
3500 words | Nile, Nicky, Joe
The start of immortality is like a second childhood, but Nile is already too old to be comfortable with not knowing what she'll be when she grows up.
"Joe and I did not start this journey together with any notion of what we would become and if you'd told us we would not have believed you," he says. "We might have tried to kill you instead because it would have been a terrible insult. So maybe it is for the best that we had no idea - and that you don't, either."
