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Nile witnesses something she never would have expected Nicky to be capable of. She'll have to come to terms with it somehow.
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30 Jun 2025
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"You hear a lot about the banality of evil, but you do not hear nearly enough about the ease of it."
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For both Nicolò di Genova and Yusuf al-Kaysani, life has always been in shades of grey. For that is how it is for everyone, until they meet the eyes of their soulmate, their One, and Colour comes into the world.
Little do they know they will receive a more dubious gift than mere Colour when their eyes meet beneath Jerusalem's walls.
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30 Jun 2025
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“And it didn’t bother you that the guard thought you were -- that we were -- ?” Nicolò asks, for what is definitely the fourth time, as they bed down, hopefully hidden from view by the reeds and trees of the Nile delta.
Yusuf sighs, rolling onto his back. “Do I mind that he thought I would be foolish enough to abandon all reason and take up with one of the men who helped sack Al-Quds? Yes, a little. Not enough to stop from using it as a perfectly serviceable escape route.”
“No,” Nicolò says, “I mean, that you would prefer the company of other men at all.”
Yusuf blinks, bemused. He hadn’t even thought of that. “As a rule, I try not to be insulted by accusations that are true,” he says drily.
OR: Five times they were faking it and two times it was real.
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10 Apr 2025
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"Nico looks at him with his eyes made for sorrow"
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1300 or so, the south of France. Yusuf and Nicolò get caught up in local politics, and Nicolò's healing leads a priest and a soldier to jump to conclusions.
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28 Mar 2025
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“To first blood?” Nicolo asks, but even as he says the words his mouth pulls down, rueful, at Yusuf’s raising brows. What is first blood to people like them?
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In which duelling to the death becomes the most intimate engagement in the world.