the_elusive_poteto



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    With hesitant steps, she made her way toward her son, the anticipation weighing heavily in her chest. Just as she opened her mouth to ask the question that had been burning in her mind, he cut her off, his voice steady yet laced with urgency.

     

    “He’s returned.”

    Penelope’s heart thundered against her ribs, each beat a reminder of the two agonizing decades that had passed in longing and uncertainty.

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    She looks at him. For the first time in his life, someone who isn’t God can hear what he is thinking. Time is a purr, a click. A trick with a ring lodged like an iron hook into tenderness.

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    Princes from all over Greece have come to Sparta to propose to the most beautiful woman in the world. Odysseus falls for her smart cousin.

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    Five times Telemachus asked for his mother to be left alone, and one time he didn’t have to.

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    The walls. They are so tall, with mist shrouding the bottoms, and the night is so deep. The clamour rising out of the city behind him would cover any noise - all he has to do is relax his grip, and he avoids offending the gods and cuts off a threat to his family before it can grow. He wouldn’t even hear a cry or the sound of it hitting the rocks below.

    His stomach twists, and he blinks liquid that isn’t rain from his eyes.

    “Forgive me, O Chronodes,” he says, bowing, mind racing, “but if neither myself nor my good son can defend our home adequately by the time this boy is old enough to challenge us, then may Ithaca burn, and us with it.”

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    Odysseus can't bring himself to kill Hector's son.

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    After Odysseus returns to Ithaca and takes care of Penelope's suitor problem for her, Penelope decides to take care of him in return.

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    Penelope gives her feral husband a bath.

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