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The men are praying now, their words quick, like shadows shifting on water. “The gods can’t find you here,” Clytemnestra says.

Luring others to you, then turning from them?”

But perhaps no parent can truly see their child. When we look we see only the mirror of our own faults.

Odysseus, son of Laertes, the great traveler, prince of wiles and tricks and a thousand ways. He showed me his scars, and in return he let me pretend that I had none.

“My lady, only a fool would say no to such an honor. But in truth,I think also only a fool would say yes. I am a mortal.The moment I set down the moly to join you in your bed,you may cast your spell.” He paused. “Unless,of course, you were to swear an oath you will not hurt me, upon the river of the dead.”Humbling women seems to me a chief pastime of poets.As if there can be no story unless we crawl and weep.

But in a solitary life, there are rare moments when another soul dips near yours, as stars once a year brush the earth. Such a constellation was he to me.

“Tell me,” I said, “how do you know that your father is not right about my poisons? How do you know I will not drug you where you sit?” “I do not.” “Yet you would dare to stay?” “I dare anything,” he said. And that is how we came to be lovers.

“I finally met your Glaucos last night. I have never seen such a buffoon.” He clicked his tongue. “I hope you will choose better ahead. You have always trusted too easily.”

“The thought was this: that all my life had been murk and depths, but I was not a part of that dark water. I was a creature within it.”

Chapter 6, learning the way of the bridge crew