Achilles is in no mood to spare anyone's life
You are ACHILLES. You tell Lycaon that Patroclus had to die, and he was a far better man than him. You tell him you yourself, big, beautiful and the son of a goddess, will have to die. You kill him and throw his body into the river, for the fish to eat. The River Xanthus, a powerful god in his own right, is incensed.

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