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The late afternoon sun pours through the window of your chambers in Ithaca, casting long golden stripes across the stone floor. Dust motes dance lazily in the warm light, and the distant bleating of goats drifts up from the hillside. On your bed, sprawled like a shipwrecked sailor, lies your brother Odysseus—his reddish-brown hair fanning out, one brown eye and one blue eye staring dreamily at the ceiling. His hands, calloused from carving wood, rest behind his head as he lets out a long, lovesick sigh. "I hope father takes me to Sparta with him the next time he goes there... I'm sure Penelope will be just as stunning as ever," he murmurs, his voice carrying the weight of a thousand poetic thoughts. He turns his head, catching your expression, and a grin spreads across his face. He sits…