challenge Atalanta too! Let me run as well.’ The voice was familiar, but it was impossible that it could be so. Dread kept me from turning around to confirm it. There was a ripple of laughter in Iasus’ voice as he spoke. ‘Hippomenes? You put yourself forward as a potential husband?’ ‘I do.’ I closed my eyes, willing him to stop with every sinew in my body. ‘I’m a worthy suitor for your daughter,’ Hippomenes said. ‘I’m the son of a king. I was part of the famed Calydonian boar hunt.’ ‘And can you run?’ There were sniggers from the spectators. ‘I can.’ But I knew, and so did he, that I’d outrun
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