Everyone else was safe inside the walls except Hektor. I tried to get him inside but he was too stubborn to listen to me. Achilles and him fight, Hektor charges, Athene tricks Hektor, Achilles kills Hektor. It was all a blur to me, yet the world seemed to go in slow motion. I saw Hektor slowly falling and Achilles laughing when Hektor asked that his body could be given to me and my family. I had to watch my son being dragged by a chariot, the hardest I have ever had to witness. Those bastards took turns desecrating his body. I could barely watch, but I couldn't take my eyes off of Hektor. After a sleepless night spent with my family, I heard tell that Achilles held the funeral for Patroklos. They sacrificed 12 of our men that Achilles had captured. At this point I don't even care anymore. My sons have been taken from this life and I won't see them again until I myself cross over. There was little time to mourn before Thetis came to me with instructions to ransom for Hektor's body. I left with Idaeus with all the treasures to trade for and we were guided to Achilles tent by a Greek soldier. I had to beg Achilles to agree with my proposal but he definitely listened when I told him to think of his own father and his fallen friend Patroklos. Crying, Achilles finally accepted my ransom. I slept in his tent but in a dream Hermes said I would not survive the night so Idaeus and I snuck out of the camp with Hektor's body. Achilles allowed for a reprieve from battle while we prepared Hektor's body and held his funeral.
I could see the funeral for Patroklos being held from my seat on the wall. I believe I would have liked him had he not been a Greek. But I think that Patroklos' funeral is foreshadowing Achilles death. I personally believe he has it coming, he killed off most of my family and I'm left to clean up all the destruction that's occurred. It's like Achilles is holding the funeral for himself that he will never have. Good, I can't wait until the bastard dies.
"Ides of March: What Is It?" Google. National Geographic, n.d. Web. 7 Oct. 2013. <http://www.google.com/search?site=imghp>.
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