Eleanor opened her eyes and saw above her a billowing canopy. She lightly stepped off the cot someone had laid her down on and began to take in her surroundings. An old man entered the tent, and Eleanor stared. She had seen him before, but she could not remember.
"Who are you?" she asked, her violet eyes wide in wonder.
"Do you not remember me, Eleanor? I am Alyosha. It seems the gods have granted you eternal youth. How kind of them."
"Alyosha. But, that's not possible. That can't be possible." Eleanor recalled the young sailor she had met just about three months ago. She was astonished, but she kept her voice calm.
"Well, Alyosha, you have, erm, changed over three months."
"Three months?" Alyosha was getting nervous now too. "I have been here these past fifty years!"
Demigod and sailor stared at one another. Eleanor tried to make sense of what was happening, but she just couldn't make sense of it. How could a few month pass on her island, while decades had taken their toll on Alyosha? The two talked late into, the night, and they decided to leave the matter for now. So Eleanor wrote down all she could remember into a small book, as clues to what might have happened.
About a week later Eleanor gave birth to three baby girls, and only a few days after that, a ship came into the Port carrying a terrible sickness. Alyosha knew that he could not move from his small home by the beach, he was too old, but he must get Eleanor and her daughters away from the sickness that was already spreading a panic among the Port inhabitants. He spent what money he had on an antique barge and crown, hired rowers, and told them to take her and her daughters towards a small village up the river.
When Eleanor reached the town, they were astonished by her extravagant possessions and gave her a lovely sandstone house. Soon she found herself governing the people, for she was a kind and just ruler. So for centuries upon centuries, the daughter of Aphrodite passed down her crown to her daughter, as well as the distinctive traits of dark, wavy hair and deep violet eyes.