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riverview2017-12-16 07:28 pm
aristosmyrmidon) wrote in riverview2017-12-16 07:28 pm
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Now, your Patroclus here was only mostly dead
[Patroclus stares at the camera intensely for a moment, checking to see if the device is working. When he realizes it must be, he leans back. And takes a breath He’s gone over what to say many times over.]
Ah, I am Patroclus. I have only recently arrived.
[Not as confident as he hoped to sound but not as bad as he feared.]
I do not know if any of you are from my world, but I understand that I am from a time in the past for many of you. Have any of you heard of Troy? I would like to know if the Greeks conquered it and--
[He braces himself. This isn’t a question he wants to ask. He knows what the general answer will be-- the prophecy always foretold Achilles’s death. But he needs to know how it happened and if his fame was worth the price.]
If you have heard of Achilles, what became of him?
Ah, I am Patroclus. I have only recently arrived.
[Not as confident as he hoped to sound but not as bad as he feared.]
I do not know if any of you are from my world, but I understand that I am from a time in the past for many of you. Have any of you heard of Troy? I would like to know if the Greeks conquered it and--
[He braces himself. This isn’t a question he wants to ask. He knows what the general answer will be-- the prophecy always foretold Achilles’s death. But he needs to know how it happened and if his fame was worth the price.]
If you have heard of Achilles, what became of him?