I watched the river flowing on, out to sea. I didn’t have Helen’s confidence that the future would always be as sunny as the past.
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‘A man like that doesn’t look like he would take any affront without protest,’ she continued. ‘Would he see the honour in his wife being chosen, or would he see it differently? I don’t know what my destiny might be, but I know that I was not born to do nothing. I don’t know what the Fates have planned for me, but it seemed –’ she searched for the right word – ‘prudent to make my choice carefully.’
I have always wanted to grow up to be the woman he thought I would become, the woman I could have been, if only he had been able to stay. To live up to the name he gave me.
I know that some people will say he never loved his children, that he couldn’t have done, given what he did. But I remember the feel of his arms around me and the steady beat of his heart against my ear, and I know there will never be a safer place in this world for me than that.
When I was born, it was our father who named me. He named me for the sun: fiery and incandescent. He’d told me that when I was a little girl: that I was the light of our family. ‘Your aunt’s beauty is famed, but you’re far more radiant than her already. You’ll bring more glory to the House of Atreus, my daughter.’ And then he’d kiss me on my forehead before he set me down. I didn’t mind the tickle of his beard. I believed what he said.