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tu, malum, eges? by Anonymous
Fandoms: The Song of Achilles - Madeline Miller, The Iliad - Homer
13 Mar 2025
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Summary
“That boy is a cruel, wild thing,” one man mutters, his eyes narrowing as he watches the prince taunt the older exile, with the lifeless carcass of an animal. The prince's laughter echoes through the still air as Patroclus, gentle but unbending, refuses to relent, though his discomfort is evident in the tense set of his shoulders.
“Hardly a boy,” the other man says gruffly, “his thirteenth name day is but a few weeks away.”
“Thirteen and infatuated with a bastard, our prince is strange.”
The second man watched silently as Achilles pressed the dead animal closer to Patroclus' face, a teasing gleam in his eyes. “Won’t be infatuated with him much longer,” the old man said, his tone heavy with a certain knowledge. “He’ll be an alpha, that one, and it’ll be serving girls and omegas soon enough.
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A callous princling becomes enamored with the skittish older exile. With their second genders comes a fate neither had intended.