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Submitted to Contest #338
Content Warning: Gore, Physical Violence, Mentions of Slavery I often used to believe that my carefree days ended in the Lion’s month of my twelfth year. My father, a man who would have no idling son as his own, enlisted one of his old generals with the task of beating me into shape. The man was Aischylos, who served under my father in the King’s army; he was a stout fellow with a limping gait, and I always thought his short, stocky build and unshorn striking black hair (of which he had much) looked particularly appalling in contrast to my ...
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