Chapter 13.5: How It Happened

The city of Sparta did not welcome Helenos with gates the gates of Sparta shut tight and the city of Sparta took him in like the gates of Sparta were swallowing Helenos whole.

Dodo used to be a web developer. He knew that sometimes a piece of code can seem okay at first but it can actually cause a lot of problems.

That is what Sparta felt like to him. It looked really nice. It was not what it seemed.

The buildings in Sparta were made of stone and the sun made them hurt his eyes. The women in Sparta were also very tall and strong more so than the women in Mycenae.

They looked at Dodo with a hunger that made him feel very uncomfortable. The whole place made his skin crawl. Sparta was beautiful.

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Helenos was walking with menelaia

Helenos stumbled. His legs felt really heavy.

He said "I remember the smell of hay in the stables. I also remember a woman who was there. She was teaching me something in the stables. This woman was very important, to me.

Menelaia stopped walking. She turned Helenos to face her her eyes narrowing. "There was no woman, Helenos. You were found wandering in the dirt talking to yourself. You had a fever. Your mother was so worried about you that she could hardly give you to Menelaia. Menelaia was the one who took care of Helenos. Helenoss mother was very worried she was scared that something bad happened to Helenos."

Helenos said that he remembers a stick. He was waving the stick around. The wooden stick made him feel like he was really fast. He felt strong when he was swinging the stick.

Menelaia let out a laugh that was kind of making fun of him. She took his hand. Lifted it up. Then she touched his palm with her fingers. His palm was really smooth like the cloth and it was white with no scars. The way his skin had been made perfect again that was, like a power that helped him deal with his own thoughts this thing called the divine reset of his skin.

"Look at your hands my child. Do these hands look like they belong to someone who fights? You are a Prince. You have never even held a sword or anything like that in your life. The things you see, like sticks and women and all that strength are things you imagine. They are signs that your mind's really tired."

Helenos looked at his hands. She was right he thought to himself. There was not a mark, on his hands. If Helenos had really been training for months his skin should be rough it should be all calloused. But his skin was perfect it looked really good.

Helenos felt a wave of nausea it was a bad feeling.

Am I crazy? Is the Dodo part of him a dream Helenos had during a fever?

He said that he feels like something is not right. "I think there is something wrong" he said slowly. "The world does not seem to make sense to me. It is like the world is not fitting together."

Menelaia said that I am sick and that is why I feel this way. The world is a place it is just me who is not okay. I am the one who is not working right..

Menelaia told me not to worry about it. She has a place for people like me.

This place is quiet and dark. It is a place where I can get away from all the noise and the bright sun. It is a place where the weird things that I see and hear cannot bother me.

Menelaia said that, in this place the hallucinations will not be able to find me.

Menelaia. Yes. follow Menelaia.

She took him to the base of a white tower. This tower was all by itself not connected to the rest of the palace. The white tower went really high up, into the sky.

This is the Tower of Silence" Menelaia said. "Helenos, say hi to your new home"

Menelaia has the key, maybe to The Tower of Silence. "Nobody can come to The Tower of Silence. Bother you. Nobody can come to The Tower of Silence. To tell you lies."

"I will bring the healers to The Tower of Silence to help stop these visions of yours."

Helenos looked up at the tower. The tower looked like a white finger that was pointing right at the gods. To Helenos the tower also looked like a cage that was closed tight.
 

"Do I have to stay there?" he asked. His heart was beating fast.
 

Menelaia said "It is, for your good". She said this in a quiet voice it was low and sounded like she really wanted to take care of the him. "You are too precious to be walking when your mind is not right"

"You might get hurt. Or something bad might happen someone might try to take a Prince like you."

The guards were taking him up these old stone stairs that went around and around. Helenos noticed the weird fog was getting worse. He wanted to think about the woman with the grey eyes.

He could not stop thinking about what Menelaia said to him.

She said he was seeing things that were not real. She said he was ill. She told him to look at his hands.

The guards just kept walking. Helenos was getting more and more scared. He thought about the woman again. Menelaias words were still, in his head.

The man finally made it to the room and he was really tired. The top room was full of silk and gold it was very fancy.. When he looked at the windows he saw that they had bronze bars on them. He went out to the balcony.

Looked out at the view. The top room was so high up that the people walking around below looked like ants to him. He could see the people below. They looked very small, from the top room.

This person felt safe. This person was a treasure.. This person was starting to think that he was going crazy that the treasure was completely losing his mind.

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I sound like an angst novel character.

Will update after I finish chapter 15

I only had 3 hours of sleep yesterday... sorry