After my men were killed by the awful dragon I kept sailing. Soon I saw an island just as Tiresias had described, with beautiful cattle. I knew I could not stop, or else bad curses would happen. One of my my men, Eurilochus said he doubted if I was even a man, or a god in disguise, because I didn’t mourn about the men being killed. I knew this was not true at all, but my crew seemed to agree with Eurilochus. WE stopped the boat, only after they agreed not to touch the cows. Soon after we docked, I fell asleep. I was woken by Eurilochus shaking me, and he showed me the great storm that was going on, and how if we would have left, we'd be dead. However, the storm went on for days, and days turned into a month. We ran out of food, and were so tempted to eat the cattle. I went and made a big fire and prayed to the gods, hoping for the storm to end. When I woke up, the storm was over, but when I went back to camp, my men were roasting two cows. Eurylochus came up to me and offered me a cut, he said they sacrificed the best part of the cow to the gods, and the storm ended. I knew the meat was cursed, and refused. We set sail, but a weird cloud was covering the sail. All of a sudden, a huge lightning bolt came out of nowhere and destroyed the ship. I knew it was Hyperion and Zeus's doing. Soon I realized we were in Kurpius, a great whirlpool Circe warned me about. I grabbed a hold of a fig branch, and escaped for a second. All my men were killed, but I prayed to the gods, and was spared. I drifted and reached an island. A nymph rescued me and said her name was Calypso. Soon she fell in love with me, but I refused, only loving my wife Penelope. I stayed there for seven years, thinking about how I refused Calypso for someone I haven’t seen in so long. I was actually nobody, there wasn’t anything I could do. Eventually I built a raft and left. BUt soon Poseidon destroyed it and I swam for three days and landed on the island of King Alcinous. All I want is to get back to Ithica, where everything is. I’ve lost everything.
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