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    “Tell me one of your stories. Something from war. Something where you’re the hero.”

    “I don’t have many of those,” Neoptolemus answers. Stories that he’s the hero of are few and far between. Cruelty drips out of him like poison. He doesn’t fight for honour—he fights because he’s had blood on his hands since he was born and this is the only way to prove it’s real.

    Telemachus shrugs. "Then tell me a story where you’re the villain.”

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    neoptolemus is finding it really hard to hate telemachus. luckily for him, telemachus isn't finding it very hard at all to hate him.

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    "Do you even know why he named his boy Telemachus?" he demanded, his voice cracking, raw with grief, edged with fury. "Do you know why he chose that name?" His hands shook at his sides, his entire body trembling. "He named him so because it means ‘far from battle.’" His voice rose, raw and ragged. "for he wished his son to be far, far from this accursed war, from blood and bronze and death!"

    Silence pressed heavy against the tent.

    Diomedes took a staggering breath, his chest rising and falling as though each inhale was a battle in itself. "And now you would have him brought here?" he whispered. "To war? To these accursed shores?"

     

    (or, Odysseus dies during the war. With a prophecy that claims that only the mind of Laertiades will cause the fall of Troy, Ten year old Prince Telemachus is brought to the shores of Troy.)

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  3. Public Bookmark 7

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    Norton left Oletus. He finally has the opportunity to build the life he always wanted, but without him the manor has never felt colder to Luchino. Their lives are separate now.

    Long distance strains some more than others.
    How do you fill a void when the only thing you possess is emptiness? How are you expected to balance an egg on a toothpick? What are you willing to give in order to unlock the changes you want in your life?
    The key is there, just step into the next cage.

    A story about sacrifice, compromise, and caring for those who refuse to care for themselves.

    A sequel to The Consequences of Double Mutualism and the Organisms that Risk It.

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