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But. He died. He remembers the pain, the flash of regret, the biting loneliness. He remembers how the ground stank of blood and decay. The summer had been so fresh in his mind in those last few moments, when they were boys and Chiron led them through the woods in search of natural remedies. When they bathed in the river and wrestled in moss. Sixteen before war and Achilles became his. And he became Achilles’. Patroclus sits up, fists the shirt above his chest and opens his mouth in a silent drag of a ragged breath. He died. Yet here he sits, panting in his bed, an eleven o’clock lecture looming over his head. He died three thousand years ago, and now he has a cellphone. Patroclus buries his head in his hands, staring at nothing between his palms for so long his eyes start to protest. He wants to understand why now. Why not when he was younger? Unless…

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