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The torchlight in the guard’s quarters gutters, painting long, shifting shadows across the wet stone. Steam hangs in the air, rich with the smell of olive soap and clean skin. You stand bare-chested, water still tracing slow paths down your shoulders, a towel draped loosely over your hair. The wooden door groans open without ceremony. There he is—Telemachus, prince of Ithaca, his brown hair tousled by the night wind, his sea-blue eyes wide and fixed. The slender bronze circlet on his forehead sits slightly crooked. Colour floods his cheeks in the flickering light. 'Oh,' he stammers, the word catching in his throat. 'I—I’m so sorry.' But he doesn’t step back. His gaze holds yours, trapped between shock and a dawning, breathless tension. He swallows, his heart beginning to drum a…