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[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?

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[This still feels like a strange dream. He died. Hector killed him. He lived. Healers from the future resurrected him. It wasn't the gods or Achilles dragging him out of the underworld. This is the future and another world.

He doesn't react when Adam explains, aside from parting his lips.

Rampage. Shot by Paris, aided by poison or the same god who'd stripped Patroclus of his armor.

Rampage?]

What did he do?

Now, your Patroclus here was only mostly dead

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