220A-Odyssey: The Castaways
Myths and Legends
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Orestes, a Ten Year Old With a Knife
Orestes, the son of odysseus was a wound that wouldn't heal. He didn't have libations. The offering of wine that his father had been forbidden by the queen. And when he returned, he wouldn't bring wine. He would bring blood. On a lost and lonely agamemnon broke troy to unite a region he shouldn't be relegated to. A headstone made anonymous with vines. Orestes tore them away and took out his knife. Then he felt a tap his panion philades said, he' just finished checking the area. There were people coming. In half an instant, both he and his friend were shadows crouching behind
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