Run! (Book I)
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Table of Contents
Recap & Status "I Run" "The Only Sounds in All of Thebes" "A Prayer to Echion" "Inside the Citadel" "The Knife!" "What I See" "Scarred by the Battle of Fifty Brothers" "Downhill Into Udaius's Ward" "Gossip Among the Echionai" "The Main Road" "Looking Back" "Acknowledged" "Together Through the Spartoi Wards" "I Imagine Androkleia" "Just So" "A Fickleness of Prophecy" "Chores Without End" "Toward the Graveyard of Humanity" "The Finish Line" Copyright"What I See"
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What I See:
Well-scrubbed scribes
trudging to their offices.
Royal officials
spilling from an all-night symposium.
What I Don't See:
The wise,
problem-solving,
monster-slaying
King of Thebes.
What I See:
Master craftsmen.
Their apprentices.
Supplicants.
Messengers.
Litigants.
Slaves.
What I Don't See:
The beautiful young queen
who commands resepct with her voice,
her face,
her eyes,
her sharp-like-a-predator's teeth.
What I See:
The smoldering house
where Zeus,
long ago,
granted Semele's final request.
The thin gray wisps
still rising
from her ashes.
What I Don't See:
The twin princes,
younger than me,
but already so deadly with spear and bow.
What I See:
Backs turned.
Eyes that slide away from mine.
A shouting wheelwright who calls me Pandora.
As a joke?
For my tight grip on the jar?
Except that hers still held a bit of hope.
What I Don't See:
The princesses,
my friends,
my cousins,
my playmates,
who might have waved goodbye
as I stumble across the hilltop citadel
and out through the Gate of Udaius.
BE A DEMIGOD!
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