A Song For Achilles

Troy has fallen. Calliope, the goddess of poetry, hears rhyme after rhyme arise from a clash of worlds: East and West, beauty and barbarity, lust and dust, brevity and longevity, and the spark and the dark. The dying Achilles forms the last rhyme she needs in order to sing an epic song. Mortality and immortality clashed inside him time and again, but now they are no longer at war. Rivalry becomes poetry. Destiny is the most beautiful song never heard. It is the rhyme of all unspoken rhymes, the echo of all muted echoes. It is the voice of all silenced voices. And now a voice can finally sing... From an early age, Achilles, the child of a sea nymph and a mortal, knows that he has a special purpose. He has a tragic flaw that reminds him of his fate: he must die young in order to live forever. The Trojan war gives his life flow and rhythm. His mortal flaw gives it a rhyme. The Muse makes it a song. The song is as beautiful as it is short. The Muse sings a song for Achilles, and a woman begins to remember a world from long ago.