Oct 13, 2022
He could recite the litany of the missing by rote: Harpalos, who fled after embezzling not once, but three times; Philotas, executed for partaking in an ill-conceived assassination attempt; Kassander, whose jealousy and social ineptitude locked him out of the inner circle; Erygios, felled in battle and honoured as a hero; and the one whose name they had studiously avoided saying in the king’s presence for the past eight months, lest they cause an earthquake to swallow the world.
From my upcoming Alexander Trilogy fic, Ptolemy POV, which will be released soon! This will be my first time writing anything for Alexander the Great.
