Rating: PG13Length: One hundred words Summary: Sound military advice.

Agamemnon's voice was an impotent storm, lashing loudly but to no effect against the walls behind the eyes of pensive-looking Odysseus.

Troy stands! raged the king. There was nobody but them inside the large tent, so the failure was to be Odysseus' alone. Are your fabled wits as feeble as Achilles', or are you just a coward like Menelaus? The tears in his eyes made his insults the plea he could not let himself know he was making.

Odysseus' voice was low and clear. Get Patroclus killed, he said, eyes dry.

.finis.