Clement - [ epic fanfic ]

"For one fleeting moment, the urge seizes you-violent and insistent-to tell him. To tell him everything. The visions that have haunted you since childhood, the truths you have spoken and been scorned for, the futures that have unraveled before your very eyes like threads unspooling from a loom.

What would he do, if he knew? If you told him of the trials that awaited him, the storms, the monsters, the gods and their cruel whims? If you told him that his long journey ahead would stretch not for weeks or months, but for years?

But you already know the answer.

Odysseus is a man who survives on wit and skepticism, who trusts only what he can see, touch, and manipulate with his own hands. He would not believe you. No one ever has."

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Or in which, you are a cursed prophet of Apollo, taken as a war prize from the city of Troy.