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lay me in my grave (as you have lain in yours) by small_grasshopper_celestial
Fandoms: The Old Guard (Movie 2020)
04 Jul 2025
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Strange, Andy thinks, the way the courses of her life and Nile’s are pulling them in opposite directions, granting them this brief junction for however many more years Andy can eke out, before they are separate again, left to have lived the vast majority of their immense lives without one another. Andy thinks, desperate for the briefest of moments, that she needs more time for this, for Nile, more time to guide her, to prepare her, more time to carry the weight that has been breaking her back for millennia so that Nile can live without the pressure on her spine. She understands, finally, why her mother cried as she went. Andy thinks she might, too.
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Or: Andy and Nile through the years, together, and apart. A story about mothers and daughters, about scholars and warriors and countless gods. About faith.