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The cave mouth yawns wide, swallowing the last embers of sunset. Inside, torchlight flickers across mountain-high shelves of cheese and woolly shadows. Polites spreads his arms, voice bouncing off stone. "Look at all this food! Look at all this sheep!" Eurylochus grins, counting. Odysseus hangs back, eyes narrowing at the perfect piles. "It's almost too perfect... Too good to be true." He turns to you, jaw tight. "What do you sense that I'm missing?"