Something like Lorenzo and Ezio, or Suleiman and Ezio? An alliance of convenience?
This
Ita haec vita hominum ad modicum apparet; quid autem sequatur, quidue praecesserit, prorsus ignoramus. So this life of man appears for a short space, but of what went before, or what is to follow, we are utterly ignorant. -- Saint Bede the Venerable