Briseis blinked, shaking her head in disbelief. 'You have taken everything from me. My husband. My brothers. My father. You have given me no word of my mother. There is nowhere else for me to go.''I expect too much,' he stated.'Their faces fade from my memory,' Briseis said, quietly. 'Without them, I have nothing.

I could not burn your mortality from your body, so live before your days are gone and regret fills your heart.

He must lay siege against Briseis' walls and conquer her. Love would be his sword and he would break all her chains.

Understand, I did not conquer my wife. I won her over. There is a difference.

You must speak to her heart, then. But first, you must open yours, then hers will follow.

Precious are the last moments when you do not know they are the last.

She must be strong enough to hold the memory of her husband, to sing his song in her heart until she joined him in the Underworld.

Hektor was the wall around her world that kept life's perils at bay.

You are the fire that burns within my heart. There is room for no other. When I die, it will be your Name upon my lips.