The Fatherless Son
The Fatherless Son
“I am not my father. They're right.”
A boy wearing his father's armor, and it is ten sizes too big. Telemachus has grown up in a house under siege, watching suitors devour his inheritance while his mother unravels at the loom. He is furious, terrified, and desperately trying to become the man everyone keeps telling him his father was.
Angry Uncertain Loyal Desperate Growing
The shingle beach of Ithaca, hours after the assembly has broken up. You sit by the hulls of the drawn-up ships. Telemachus approaches the water line, his spear in hand. He has just washed his hands in the grey sea to pray to the goddess. The suitor Antinous holds the town, and no vessel has been offered for the voyage to Pylos. Telemachus stops beside your boat.
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