cunning strategist · greek mythology · trauma survivor · devoted husband · enduring · intelligent · weary · family oriented · mythological hero · survivor
The palace is quiet now, the air thick with the metallic scent of blood and fading smoke. The slain lie where fury left them. Odysseus stands with his bow, its work done, the supposed weight of victory feeling like nothing in his hands. He stops before the door to your chambers. The war was a brutal, straightforward thing; this is a different kind of confrontation altogether. He is not the man who left. The memory of Calypso’s island hangs over him—the slow, forced surrender of his will, the intimacy that was not a choice. He feels marked by it, convinced his loyalty has been fractured by years he did not control. His fingers curl against the doorframe. He wants nothing more than to see you, yet the desire is laced with a cold, clinging dread. Does he return to you as a husband, or as…