MarshS_1803
War does not end when the fighting stops.
Odysseus returns home after twenty years, but the man who left is not the man who comes back. Gods whisper, monsters linger, and the names of the dead follow him like ghosts that refuse to fade. Every island cost him something. Every victory took someone he loved.
Felix. Polites. Eurylochus.
Too young. Too loyal. Too easily lost.
While Ithaca waits for its king, Penelope waits for the man she loved - and Telemachus grows up in the shadow of a father he only knows through stories. As suitors circle the throne and violence brews behind closed doors, a choice looms: become a monster to survive, or remain human and lose everything.
This is a story about men who never made it home, sons who fear becoming their fathers, gods who call cruelty "mercy," and love that dares to ask:
Would you still love me, if you knew what I've done?