a golden apple.
Oh. Duh. It just hit me. The golden apple of Discord. The prize to be given by Paris to the 'most worthy' goddess. Hera, Athena, or Aphrodite. Started the whole Trojan shitshow that plagued me through so many high school Eng/Lit classes.
I just finished *The Song of Achilles*. The first half was angsty, teen romance.
They got me in the second half, ngl. *I* became the angsty teen. "Achilles and Patroclus...." /sigh "So beautiful, so noble, so doomed", as I lift my arm to my forehead and gracefully swoon onto a red velvet couch.
