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He watches me. It seems that he is waiting.

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My stomach trembles, and a warm drop of pleasure spreads beneath my skin. More.

(…)

Dear gods, I think, let him not hate me

Achilles showed no special interest in any of the boys, though he was polite to all, as befitted his upbringing. And now he had bestowed the long-awaited honour upon the most unlikely of us, small and ungrateful and probably cursed.