Title: Blooming, Blossoming, Boisterous and Bold
Fandom: The Old Guard
Rating: Teen and Up
Length: 89
Content notes: implied nudity
Author's note: Shockingly not written to Hozier's To Noisemaking (Sing).
Summary: Nile settles in.


Nile makes the most interesting noises

at the oddest moments;

when she's in the shower

and Niccolo asks (in his least surreptitious voice)

her tastes in food, with proper spices -

seeing Andromache bared in bronze,

watching Yusuf oil his arms -

finding Booker's plain old books

and squirreling them away to her nest nook -

stealing shirts and reclaiming pants -

as she learns to spit while others cower -

when she 'eagle leaps' from a tower;

she growls and laughs and sings and chirps

and becomes the history of the whole earth