Protesilaus' ship is in danger. Meanwhile Patroclus has finally got back to Achilles' hut
You are ACHILLES. Patroclus finally gets back to you. He is in a bad way; you tell him he looks like a little girl waiting to be picked up by her mummy. What is the problem? you ask. Both of your fathers are still alive - and surely he cannot be weeping for the Greeks, who are at last getting the pounding they thoroughly deserve. Patroclus is angry, calling you vindictive and pitiless. He says that Thetis is not your mother...

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