Books Seven and Eight.

Hector had me looking over the edge of Olympus today. He had to fight the great Aias, and thank the good Apollo he came back to me in one piece. Hector I guess was supposed to fight Menelaus, but Agamemnon must have talked him out of it; I, however, have no doubt he was too afraid to go up against my husband.

Besides the near heart attack that Hector almost gave me yesterday - yet again I should say - a peculiar thing happened a few moments ago. Paris kept on muttering to himself, "I will not give her up, I will not give her up," while he was walking past my door in the palace. I went to go and confront him about it, and he said that Antenor had asked him to give up Helen in order to end this war. He said he would return all the treasure he took from the land, but the one treasure he would not give up is his wife. I have to give it to him, as much as I want this war to be done and over with, do they really believe that the fighting will stop once Helen would be returned? There's too much into this war for it to be that simple.

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Leaving the muttering Paris, I decided to rest my eyes to try to escape from all this chaos that is happening around me. Though the rest only made me more weary, for Apollo had shot down more dreams to my wandering mind. I found out that Zeus had prohibited any god interference with the war, so that should be a good thing, right? Zeus had also weighed the fate of us and the Achaean and the Achaean side sank! He turned the battle towards us. Though I saw an eagle fly through my dream while carrying a fawn in it's talons. This cannot be a good sign for us. I don't know why, but I just have a bad feeling about it.

After this dream, I got up and noticed a piece of parchment on the bed side table. It was a check list, more than likely left from Hector from the night before. It read as such:

1. Drive forth towards Achaean fortifications
2. Set fire to their ships

What is my husband, the defender, becoming? This is not my Hector. This is not my husband.

Lattimore, Richmond, trans. The Iliad of Homer. Chicago: The University of
     Chicago Press, 2011. Print. This book was the base of which I got the
     majority of the information in my characters blog post.