[Her delight throws him off kilter just enough to dampen his fury from its present inferno to low-burning ire when he answers.]
What mean you by this, white-armed maiden?
[He hails from an era wherein the Golden Age of Athens, whose rich culture yielded the immomrtal Greek tragedians, is but a distant point beyond the horizon. Sophocles, Euripides, and Aeschylus have not yet penned their plays about Achilles' comrades, his family, and even himself, nor have the theaters yet been erected on whose stages actors assume these revered roles. Instead he knows the songs of bards and the stories their music weaves.]
bless u liah
What mean you by this, white-armed maiden?
[He hails from an era wherein the Golden Age of Athens, whose rich culture yielded the immomrtal Greek tragedians, is but a distant point beyond the horizon. Sophocles, Euripides, and Aeschylus have not yet penned their plays about Achilles' comrades, his family, and even himself, nor have the theaters yet been erected on whose stages actors assume these revered roles. Instead he knows the songs of bards and the stories their music weaves.]