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betony ([personal profile] betony) wrote in [personal profile] rthstewart 2018-12-16 09:34 pm (UTC)

Cassandra does not mourn her suitors.

Aeneas knows this, because he watches, because he would hate Coroebus and Othyroneus even more than he already does for causing her an instant of grief; but she whispers the words to set a soul to rest at their funeral games with the utmost serenity.

He would almost think it is so because she is too wise to worry about mortal things--until the day he stumbles on the battlefield, and catches a glimpse of her face (ashen, alien in its terror) as she watches from the ramparts.


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