Resurrected to Judge the Gods’ War · Lost Reels #648

Resurrected to Judge the Gods' War · Lost Reels #648
Written by Peruze

Pulled back from death just to keep score on a war he never chose.

The scene

the Muse: More than nine years reborn, scholar, and still mine.

Thomas Hockenberry: You woke me to count your lies.

Thomas Hockenberry: The cerberids sniffed me over again this morning.

the Muse: They answer to me, not you.

the Muse: Tell me where the old poem goes wrong.

Thomas Hockenberry: More torches burn tonight than Homer ever counted.

Thomas Hockenberry: I measure your war against Homer, line by line.

the Muse: Then measure it well, scholar.

Thomas Hockenberry: The Scholia barracks feel like a cage now.

the Muse: I will summon you again tomorrow, scholar.

ARCHIVE REEL 648 · PRODUCTION HALTED 1973.

The novel

Ilium by Dan Simmons.

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