The door snicked shut.

“It was almost like fear, in the way it filled me, rising in my chest. It was al…”

“He is more worth to you, perhaps. But the stranger is someone else's friend and…”

“Later Achilles would play the lyre, as Chiron and I listened. My mother's lyre.…”

“Chiron had said once that nations were the most foolish of mortal inventions. “…”