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    He’d begun talking to her. Sometimes he swore she understood, giving well-timed huffs and nods as if there was sentience behind those chestnut eyes. Perhaps there was. There must have been, considering she was down here. She had a soul that remained after death.

    Eurylochus told her of his wife, his friends, his life. The one who had tried to stop him from killing her, he told her, was Odysseus, his brother in law—and nearly by blood, too, for all the time they’d spent together as children. He told her of kind Polites and his untimely death, how he had been the adhesive holding the crew together.

    “I think that was where it started going wrong,” he said. His voice was an echo, and was not made up of words so much as thoughts and ideas now that he had no body to mould his sounds into more distinct shapes. “You would have loved him.” Darling laid her head across his lap, her ears slapping gently against his forearm. Eurylochus gave them a good scratch. “I did,” he said. “Everyone loved him.”

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    Or: Eurylochus is dead. So is the cow he intended to eat.

    They are each other's afterlife.

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  2. Public Bookmark 71

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    “Let us give him a birthday he won’t forget.”

    The men turned. It was not one of them who had spoken; it was the beggar who had let himself into the palace a few days ago. Antinous had reported him to the queen right away, but she had told him to let him be, and so they had. This man stepped out now, away from the dark corner he had pushed himself into.

    He was filthy, and perhaps a little mad, but otherwise harmless. If this man was as set on making Telemachus happy as the rest of them were, then he was one of them. After all, Antinous himself had been an unwelcome guest once, and all his brothers with him.

    “The old man speaks true,” Antinous declared, thrusting his fist into the air, and he was met with shouts of agreement before they all realised at the same time that it was wiser to be quiet. “Be merry, my friends,” he said, ducking low now. He looked to Athena, who was watching in approval. “Make it a celebration he will tell his grandchildren about.”

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    Or: Telemachus is turning twenty, and the suitors want to make it the greatest party yet. There is, however, a gift even they weren’t expecting.

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  3. Public Bookmark 1

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    12. Anything to stop the prophecy

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    Stop it, no, don't write Odysseus sacrificing the pure soul that is polites to Tiresias to get him home faster and then having his best friends soul watch him depart. Noooooo.

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  4. Public Bookmark 67

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    The one where Ceroba succeeds in taking Clovers soul, and Flowey doesn't undo it.

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    Kaveh has achieved so much today, it should be fine to do this much for himself. It should be fine to enjoy this much. There is absolutely nothing that Al-Haitham could possibly do to ruin this day!

    Of course, this is when Al-Haitham chooses to walk in covered in blood.

    Kaveh has enough troubles on his plate even without dealing with his confusing relationship with and unfortunately lingering feelings for his stubborn, infuriating roommate. But when a strange conspiracy begins closing in on Al-Haitham and threatening the precarious balance of their daily lives, Kaveh finds himself having to reevaluate the nature of their relationship and reckon with the ghosts of the past.

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    There’s never really a good time, way, or reason to tell Kaveh about his long-lived, amoral, exiled, criminal ex-partner — who, Al-Haitham will note, was not any of those things at the time they were involved.

    However, there is definitely a worst way for Kaveh to find out.

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