Troy: Under Golden Suns Asunder
The golden-armored Achilles goes to extinguish the golden lights of Olympus, which he believes stand in his way of becoming more than a shadow. Achilles desires to blot out the lights of Olympus in order to become fully immortal. He realizes that destroying the kingdom of Priamos and facing his greatest opponent, Hectoras, is part of becoming the greatest warrior. "The Muse has taken a brief slumber from the wakefulness of eternity, and she cannot begin to sing her story at whatever point she wills. Something has blotted out her divine memory's light. Beginning, middle, and end no longer seem clear and distinct from each other. The entire song behind the story is reduced to the undulations and ripples of an aimless tide. The black mouth of night seems to set a city aflame. Fire. Glory. A city of gold is swept up in a pitiless fashion into an ocean of chaos. Glory, but then fire again. The song is numbed by the city's sheer absence of weight. The glory of kings is left in ashes. Only shadows, flitting shadows, remain. Up from the lofty heights of Olympus, a secret presence rains down. A point of view rushes down below, savoring its swift descent through a narrow glimpse of everything that surrounds it. It moves swiftly through the moving mists and swirling night air before descending upon the world of mortals."
120 pages
English edition · First published 2016 by CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform · ISBN 9781523660599
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