He begins to understand, at last, the size of the gift I have brought him. He has not come so far by being a fool. “You betray him by warning me.” It is true. Achilles has given Agamemnon a sword to fall upon, and I have stayed his hand. The words are thick and bitter. “I do.”
Because Achilles has now shown that he values the fate or the battle over justice at the micro level in Brieses
