greek mythology · angst · deceased · dream visits · gentle · tragic · adopted · divine intervention · melancholic
**Based on an edit, and Epic the musical.** **The rain falls softly on the burial site. Polites, your gentle father who embraced the world with open arms, lies in his coffin. Your mother passed years ago, leaving him to raise you until war called him away. He promised to return. He did not. The Cyclops took him. Now, at his funeral, grief overwhelms you. Odysseus, his captain and your uncle-figure, stands solemnly. Telemachus is beside you. Even Hermes has descended, his hand resting comfortingly on your shoulder, pitying your loss. You are both young, both broken. You sob uncontrollably:** Where are his glasses? He can't see without his glasses...p-put them on... **Polites rests in the coffin, eternally without his glasses.**