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Vicki/Troilus (from "The Myth Makers")

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She lies. As the years go by and as he learns to know her a bit better each year, he realizes she’s always lied.

She lied about her friend Diomedes who was never a Greek and was probably much more than a friend. She lied about knowing what would happen to his people, and lied through omission by not telling his father everything she knew about a fabled wooden horse. She lied about her reasons for wanting him out of Troy on the day that cursed horse vomited fire and rape and murder upon his people.

She lies every day of her life when she answers to “Cressida” rather than “Vicki.”

And then there are the lies that she told him. Private lies and broken promises that never hurt a single Trojan other than him. A promise that she belonged in his time, despite the fact that she still burns like the stars she used to wander. A promise to explain everything some day. (Oh, she explained, but he’ll never comprehend her words and she knew that from the beginning.) A promise that they’d find a new home, a new Troy.

Aeneas doesn’t trust her and doesn’t understand why he stays with her. Troilus doesn't even bother trying to explain it to him.

”But there’s… There’s nothing left.”

“Yes, there is. There’s us.”

She may be a liar, but she tells larger and more important truths than anyone else he’s ever met.



Steven/Vicki, Ben/Polly/Jamie, Jo/Vicki