The Nobody

The Odyssey, told by the man it forgot.

Homer names Polites once, then lets him die. A rower. A nobody. Somehow, across three thousand years, his messages reach you — the sea, the islands, the dark stretches between. He doesn't know what you are. You don't know why you can hear him. Stay with him and he might make it home. Go quiet, and the story ends the way it always has.