Epilogue To Odysseus's Journey

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Odysseus and his men boarded their old ship with a mermaid on the front. Odysseus was a young man, 6’4” tall and made of pure muscle. He was wearing a white toga. The enchantress Circe had given Odysseus many warnings about his journey.

Odysseus yelled, “gather around men! As we are sailing, we will be passing sirens do not listen. If you listen every emotion in you will fight to get there, if you jump you will drown and die! as we are short on ear plugs we might lose one or two of you, and I’m sorry for that. Only I can hear it, but you will tie me down.”

Then the dark clouds began to fade away and they saw the sun's reflection from the dark blue water. And then out of the clear we saw the coast of sirens, with the beautiful green grass

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