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Red Athens By Jacob Malewitz Author of Champions 100 White Shirt                                                             3 Young scholar, Calli may have been smart, Numid and Verce talented, but this hero did many stupid things. The documentation is there, the facts tell the same story. The Pericles line, some said, allowed for failure at the greatest levels. But why would one tell a story without a succeeding hero? Outside the Blue Babylon lines, Calli couldn’t believe it. He watched the Red Athens prince kill a scout, undress him, and say something to the coming winds. It is said, according to the Tellers of Mycenae, much like the minotaurs could hide behind masks, so too could certain men of Dorian blood, the richest line of Greeks. Or so it was said. Pericles sprinkled something—somet...

Hours passed. The guard would walk up and down the gate, looking for something, and when this young poet came upon the records of their escape, and of course they did, it appeared that some powerful force had been brought to bear. In truth, there were two.             “Leonidas did this.”             “Why him?”             “That Green Spartan hates all of Red Athens. He let the mages into his temples, and it is said, even slept with one of the woman. The jews call the child the anti-christ.”             The gate opened. A god stood there. One can tell a god has taken control of the scene when an impossible situation turns into a promising one. What matters here is, the god, small as he was, be Janus.          ...