Thank you so much for this lovely piece. You present Helen as an intelligent and thoughtful woman, still compassionate where others would be cynical after all she's been through (it's hard not to lose faith in humanity when everyone is blaming you for starting a war!). I also really liked the clever shout out to the myth of her phantom going to Troy, in the paragraph about Paris' departure. Neat change of perspective.

My only gripe is that this is a one-shot! I would love it if you could expand on this. I read that you're a Classics major in your bio; please write more Homer/Greek myth works!