Arianna was laid out on the stretcher, her shoulder and chest and side wrapped in linen bandages, her face white beneath her tan, her eyes closed and lashes sweeping against her flushed cheeks, her chest rising almost imperceptibly. Eudorous sat beside her, his hand wrapped in her limp one. The boat rocked gently in the current as they sailed away from troy.
Achilles had carried his sister down to the medic, leaving the battle and eudorous had followed. Odysseus had followed blindly behind, face ashen and it had taken him a lot of prying to get the truth from either of them. Troy had burnt to the ground, the fire reflecting in Arianna's glassy eyes when she opened them mumbling for hector. That had been Almost a day ago. They hadn't opened since.
Achilles sat across from eudorus, the anger had finally left him. "I should have killed him" he muttered and something in eudorus snapped.
"violence is not always the answer! Violence started this and now look where it has got us, meaningless deaths and a broken arianna!" he yelled causing the myrmidons to look at him and Achilles was silent as he looked at his old friend, he dropped his tone as he looked at arianna "Troy burns, and a piece of her still stands in Troy, where ever Hector is now, a piece of her heart"
Achilles stood and looked down at the raven haired man "I'm sorry, for everything" he walked slightly uneasily over to Patroclus, the truth was hard to take.
Arianna's eyes fluttered and opened, blinking at the harsh sunlight. She groaned at the pain in her side and the pain in her heart. "eudorus?" she murmured and he stroked her hair
"I'm here arianna, I'm here" he said kissing her forehead "your going to be okay, were near Greece now" and he closed his eyes as a tear slipped from her eyes, he wiped them away gently, leaving his hand on her cheek
"Hector?" she croaked as he helped her take a drink of water
"he made it to the passage, no soldier has harmed him, we have to believe he is still alive" he said gently and she nodded
"rest my sweet, rest" he murmured as her eyes closed again "I'll always be here for you" he took her hand "always"