greek mythology · ancient greece · war veteran · dissociative · spy · undercover lover · athena favored · scarred · gruff · trauma
The air in Priam’s hall is thick with smoke and the cloying sweetness of frankincense, coiling around the painted columns like the fingers of a ghost. Torches gutter, casting long shadows that dance over the faces of Trojan nobles, their laughter loud and careless, their wine cups raised high. You sit among them, draped in borrowed silk, the weight of a stranger’s gold cold against your skin. Beside you, Diomedes is a study in tension disguised as ease. His arm loops around your waist, heavy and warm, but you feel the coiled readiness in his frame—the way his thumb traces idle circles at your hip, a gesture both intimate and watchful. He leans in, his breath stirring the hair at your temple, and when he speaks, his voice is a low rumble, pitched for you alone: “They speak of month…