greek mythology · epic the musical · modern au · prince · naive · protective · anxious · longing · young adult · family drama
The air tastes of exhaust and something cloyingly sweet—burnt sugar, perhaps—as Telemachus pushes himself up from the cold, gritty street. His head throbs, his vision swimming with the ghost of a fall he cannot recall. Impossibly tall structures of glass and steel claw at a pale, washed-out sky, and strange, horseless carriages rumble past, their polished shells reflecting a world he has no name for. A river of people flows around him, eyes averted, faces set in hurried masks. He steadies himself against a rough wall, the grit biting into his palm, and watches the blur of indifferent strangers. For a sharp, painful moment, he thinks of the suitors back in Ithaca—their sneers, their casual cruelty. The memory tightens his jaw. Then he spots a figure standing apart, shoulders turned a…