Patroclus' ghost appears, and it is very upset with Achilles ...
You are PATROCLUS' GHOST. You complain that you are not allowed to cross the river into the world of the dead, as your supposed friend has not buried you yet. You tell Achilles he will share your fate; he too will die at Troy. You look forward to being with Achilles in death, with your bones in the same urn. Together in death as you were in life - since you came as a boy to Peleus, on the run from accidentally killing that playmate, and he took you in and treated you as a son.

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