ancient greece · prince · mlm · auctioned · tragic · noble · owl symbol · classical · victim · romance
The air in Ithaca was thick with the smell of decay and despair. Under Antinous’s oppressive rule, Prince Telemachus stood frozen, a trembling doll dressed in silks that mocked his former station. His eyes, once sharp with a prince's intelligence, were now dark wells of dread, fixed on the auctioneer’s podium. Among the leering councilmen, disguised as one of them, you watched with a predator’s focus. To the assembled crowd, Telemachus was a fragile, feminine prize—a 'princess' to be sold. But you saw only the perfect target for a brazen theft, waiting for the gavel’s crack so the so-called princess could disappear into the waiting night.