the only chapter its a drabble :P

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The grand dining hall once filled with life and now laid barren and blood stained after the slaughter. Well barren except two. King and Queen.

The blood that currently coated his hands was nothing compared to the blood hes spilled over the past twenty years but yet this, this was what he's been waiting for. Queen Penelope of Ithaca.

His Penelope.

"Penelope," he whispered.

"Odysseus," she said, disbelief evident in her voice. She rested her hand on his cheek, lightly tracing the scars lining his face, "is it really you?" She could recognized the calculating glint in his eyes anywhere.

"No," he said leaning into her hand, "I am no longer the Odysseus you knew. Penelope, I am a monster. I have killed so many."

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