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He’d begun talking to her. Sometimes he swore she understood, giving well-timed huffs and nods as if there was sentience behind those chestnut eyes. Perhaps there was. There must have been, considering she was down here. She had a soul that remained after death. Eurylochus told her of his wife, his friends, his life. The one who had tried to stop him from killing her, he told her, was Odysseus, his brother in law—and nearly by blood, too, for all the time they’d spent together as children. He told her of kind Polites and his untimely death, how he had been the adhesive holding the crew together. “I think that was where it started going wrong,” he said. His voice was an echo, and was not made up of words so much as thoughts and ideas now that he had no body to mould his sounds into more distinct shapes. “You would have loved him.” Darling laid her head across his lap, her ears slapping gently against his forearm. Eurylochus gave them a good scratch. “I did,” he said. “Everyone loved him.” ///// Or: Eurylochus is dead. So is the cow he intended to eat. They are each other's afterlife.

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