March 31, 2024 02:57
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Chapter Twenty-seven
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All my life I have been moving forward, and now I am here. I have a mortal’s voice, let me have the rest. I lift the brimming bowl to my lips and drink.
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March 31, 2024 02:50
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Chapter Twenty-five
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“If it is so,” I said, “it is only because I have been fool enough for a hundred lifetimes.”
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March 30, 2024 17:19
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Chapter Twenty-four
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“I would have made him a god,” she said. “An equal. But in the end, he was too weak.”
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March 30, 2024 17:19
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Chapter Twenty-four
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“There will be no songs made of you. No stories. Do you understand? You will live a life of obscurity
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March 30, 2024 02:03
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Chapter Twenty-two
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“It is strange to think of a goddess needing friends.”
“All creatures that are not mad need them.”
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March 29, 2024 18:34
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Chapter Twenty-one
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My son will hunt down those men who laid me low. He will say, “You dared to spill the blood of Odysseus, and now yours is spilled in turn.”
“Telemachus is sworn to kill you!”
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March 29, 2024 18:32
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Chapter Twenty-one
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“You should have let Athena kill me.” His shoulders were fallen, his voice dull.
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Is this why Athena wanted to him? Cause she knew he’d end her hero?
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March 29, 2024 18:32
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Chapter Twenty-one
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“His face just… stopped. He fell. I tried to wipe the poison away, but there was not even a wound. I will take you to my mother, I said, and she will help. His lips were white. I held him. I am your son, Telegonus, born from the goddess Circe. He heard. I think he heard. He looked at me before… he was gone.”
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March 29, 2024 18:21
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Chapter Nineteen
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For sixteen years, I had been holding up the sky, and he had not noticed.
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March 29, 2024 18:19
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Chapter Nineteen
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“He is a god of lies,” I said. “Only fools put their faith in him.”
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March 29, 2024 18:16
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Chapter Nineteen
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“Who was he?”
“A prince who came to this island. He had a thousand and one tricks in him.”
“What did he look like?”
I had thought my memories of Odysseus would taste of salt
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March 29, 2024 12:58
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Chapter Seventeen
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Every moment of my peace was a lie, for it came only at the gods’ pleasure. No matter what I did, how long I lived, at a whim they would be able to reach down and do with me what they wished.
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March 29, 2024 02:29
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Chapter Sixteen
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Sweet son,’ I said, ‘you are right, this world is a wild and terrible place, and worth shouting at. But you are safe now, and all of us need to sleep. Will you let us have a little peace?’
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March 29, 2024 02:27
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Chapter Sixteen
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“Heroes are fools,” I had said.
He had laughed. “We are agreed.”
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March 29, 2024 02:24
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Chapter Sixteen
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“His lover, Patroclus. He didn’t like me much, but then the good ones never do. Achilles went mad when he died; nearly mad, anyway.”
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March 29, 2024 02:22
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Chapter Sixteen
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Humbling women seems to me a chief pastime of poets. As if there can be no story unless we crawl and weep.
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March 29, 2024 02:21
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Chapter Fifteen
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“Then, Prince Odysseus, we are at an impasse. For you have the moly, and I have your men. I cannot harm you, but if you strike at me, they will never be themselves again.”
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March 29, 2024 02:07
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Chapter Thirteen
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“Let him be a hero. You are something else.”
“And what is that?”
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March 29, 2024 02:02
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Chapter Thirteen
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“You are Aeëtes’ child,” I said. I searched for the name Hermes had told me. “Medea, is it not?”
“And you are my aunt Circe.”
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March 29, 2024 02:00
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Chapter Twelve
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All extinguished for nothing but petty pleasure and revenge.
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March 29, 2024 01:59
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Chapter Twelve
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Icarus, Daedalus, Ariadne. All gone to those dark fields, where hands worked nothing but air, where feet no more touched the earth. If I had been there, I thought. But what would it have changed?
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March 29, 2024 01:59
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Chapter Twelve
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Meanwhile every petty and useless god would go on sucking down the bright air until the stars went dark.
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March 29, 2024 01:04
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Chapter Eleven
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I mourned for that sweet boy’s death, but I mourned more for Daedalus, winging doggedly onwards, dragging that desperate grief behind him.
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March 29, 2024 00:52
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Chapter Eleven
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“For now, he is. He is too young to know himself a prisoner.” Those white scars seemed to flare on his hands. “A golden cage is still a cage.”
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March 29, 2024 00:05
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Chapter Nine
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“I will never be free of her. She cannot be changed back, not now, not ever. What she is, she will remain. She will feast on your kind for all eternity. So get up. Get up and get to your oars, and let me not hear you speak again of your imbecile gratitude or I will make you sorry for it.”
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March 28, 2024 16:16
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Chapter Nine
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It is your art she wants, lady. Yours alone.”
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It’s the Minotaur isn’t it
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March 28, 2024 02:26
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Chapter Eight
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The flower had no name that I knew, so I called it moly, root, from the antique language of the gods
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The lyrics of the song make so much more sense now…
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March 28, 2024 02:26
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Chapter Eight
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“She said that a man named Odysseus, born from my blood, will come one day to your island.”
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March 28, 2024 02:25
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Chapter Eight
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“Tell me,” he said, “who gives better offerings, a miserable man or a happy one?”
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March 28, 2024 02:25
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Chapter Eight
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“Wrong,” he said. “A happy man is too occupied with his life. He thinks he is beholden to no one. But make him shiver, kill his wife, cripple his child, then you will hear from him. He will starve his family for a month to buy you a pure-white yearling calf. If he can afford it, he will buy you a hundred.”
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March 28, 2024 02:24
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Chapter Eight
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And that is how we came to be lovers
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Did your brother not tell you to be more careful?
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March 28, 2024 02:19
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Chapter Seven
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Look, I said, showing her the knife I had carried with me from my father’s halls, the one stamped with a lion’s face. “What fool made this? They have never seen your like.”
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She got a pet Lion
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March 28, 2024 02:17
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Chapter Seven
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But Aeëtes had been right, my greatest gift was transformation, and that was always where my thoughts returned
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March 28, 2024 02:17
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Chapter Seven
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Transformation touched only bodies, not minds.
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March 28, 2024 02:15
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Chapter Seven
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No wonder I have been so slow, I thought. All this while, I have been a weaver without wool, a ship without the sea. Yet now look where I sail.
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March 28, 2024 02:08
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Chapter Six
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Colchis
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Isn’t that Medea’s kingdom
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March 28, 2024 00:43
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Chapter Six
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“If the world contained the power you allege, do you think it would fall to such as you to discover it?”
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March 27, 2024 12:22
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Chapter Five
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“Glaucos asked me to marry him. I have not decided yet what I will say. What is your counsel, Circe? Should I take him, blue skin, flippers, and all?”
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March 27, 2024 12:21
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Chapter Five
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“I sent a wave to smash my father’s boat, and the shock killed him. My mother I blessed. She has a new husband and a slave to help her with the washing. She has built me an altar, and already it smokes. My village hopes I will bring them a good tide.”
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He’s gonna ditch her now
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March 27, 2024 12:21
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Chapter Five
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“We will see,” he said, “what they offer me.”
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Yep now he’s being a jerk
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March 27, 2024 12:16
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Chapter Four
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I wished I were a real goddess so I could give him whales upon a golden plate, and he would never let me g
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March 27, 2024 12:14
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Chapter Four
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No, I thought. My grandfather’s halls are filled with shining nymphs and muscled river-gods, but I would rather gaze on you than any of them.
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March 27, 2024 12:13
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Chapter Four
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His name was Glaucos, and he came every day. He brought along bread, which I had never tasted, and cheese, which I had, and olives that I liked to see his teeth bite through.
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Abby is learning so many new things
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March 27, 2024 02:45
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Chapter Three
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Aeëtes, my father had named him. Eagle. His skin was warm in my arms as a sun-hot stone and soft as petal-velvet
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I haven’t heard of this dude before
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March 27, 2024 02:26
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Chapter Two
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Prometheus.
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March 26, 2024 17:40
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Chapter One
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Perses
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March 26, 2024 17:39
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Chapter One
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Pasiphaë
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It’s weird to read this from a none Percy Jackson standpoint where these people aren’t evil
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