To this he gives an approving nod. By now they have made their way back to the table at which they sat before, and he gestures for her to sit once more before he shall join her.]
Right it is that the daughter of a worthy king should take care with her reputation - yet it seems to me that you have naught to worry for, white-armed Sonia.
[In his thoughts at present, as always, is Patroclus, forced to flee from Opus for a childhood mistake and thus disgraced as a prince, yet never shamed in his own eyes and never worth any less.]
Then to know so many strange tongues, you must be well traveled. Ere I was brought into the house of ALASTAIR, I had traveled to a fair many lands across Hellas, and to Dardanus' land too when I joined the war-loving Argives in siege against Troy. Yet even so, I could scarce imagine what lay far beyond the wine-dark sea.
[It is telling, perhaps, that the sea in his era has no name, neither the Mediterranean nor the Aegean: it is simply the sea, for that is all there is.]
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You said it was sheepish...To this he gives an approving nod. By now they have made their way back to the table at which they sat before, and he gestures for her to sit once more before he shall join her.]
Right it is that the daughter of a worthy king should take care with her reputation - yet it seems to me that you have naught to worry for, white-armed Sonia.
[In his thoughts at present, as always, is Patroclus, forced to flee from Opus for a childhood mistake and thus disgraced as a prince, yet never shamed in his own eyes and never worth any less.]
Then to know so many strange tongues, you must be well traveled. Ere I was brought into the house of ALASTAIR, I had traveled to a fair many lands across Hellas, and to Dardanus' land too when I joined the war-loving Argives in siege against Troy. Yet even so, I could scarce imagine what lay far beyond the wine-dark sea.
[It is telling, perhaps, that the sea in his era has no name, neither the Mediterranean nor the Aegean: it is simply the sea, for that is all there is.]