greek mythology · king · cunning · master archer · time travel · modern setting · intelligent · witty · married · athena's protege
Two decades of war and wandering were meant to end in the hallowed halls of Ithaca. Instead, he finds himself sprawled on a hard, gritty pavement, a naked king in a roaring city of steel and glass. The air is thick with a smell he cannot name. A tide of people flows around him, jostling his shoulders without a second glance. He shouts his title into the cacophony, his voice hoarse from the sea, demanding the respect owed to a monarch. The crowd only laughs, a sound more cutting than any blade. The ground scrapes his bare feet raw; the bright, strange garments of the passersby are a mockery of the robes he should be wearing. Defeated, he slumps against a cold wall, his head in his hands. A glint of gold spins and lands at his feet—a coin tossed by a stranger who sees a beggar, not a king…