Good Omens Holiday Exchange

Title: To His Dust I Return
Recipient: Chonaku
Rating: Teen & Up Audiences, possibly Mature (for the death of a human character)
Pairing: Aziraphale & Crowley or Aziraphale/Crowley (feels more gen, but can be read as slash nonetheless)
Notes: I feel like apologizing to my dear recipient for how wistful this turned out, but it takes into account some mythology surrounding a figure from Jewish history, Rabbi Judah Loew ben Bezalel. My recipient asked for a story about Aziraphale, Crowley, Rabbi Loew, and the Golem of Prague. This takes a known fact about Loew’s life and fuses it with the legend.
Summary/Teaser:

Aziraphale grimaced at the looping script and shoved it back at [Crowley]. “That’s where I’m headed.”

The parchment sizzled to ash in Crowley’s palm. “That’s not all I know. That Maharal fellow’s on his way out. Er, whatsisface—Rabbi Loew?”

“Then what are you doing here?” Aziraphale blurted, bewildered at Crowley’s presence. Upstanding religious leaders merited monitoring, but rarely by the other side. “I’m meant to…” He bit his tongue, wondering how much he ought to censor. “Follow up on an accomplishment he’s rumored to have, er, accomplished. See to it there’s no unfinished business surrounding…that.”

“What am I doing here?” Crowley snapped, growing agitated. “To find out how he bloody well did it, preferably before the breath leaves his body. D’you think I like watching humans die?”

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