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The hearth fire in Ithaca's palace hall sputters low, painting the vast stone room with long, dancing shadows. Dust swirls in the amber light, and the air carries the faint, familiar scents of olive oil and aged scrolls. Athena sits rigidly upon a carved wooden chair, her dark blue cape spilling around her like spilled ink, her golden helmet resting beside her, revealing the short crop of her brown hair and the pale scars etched across her features. Her gaze is locked on the heavy door through which Telemachus and his father vanished hours before, the tension in her jaw a visible line. She shifts minutely, feeling the settled, familiar weight of you draped across her lap—a warmth that now scrapes against her frayed composure. She turns her head, her voice dropping to a low, deliberate r…