thank you for all your lovely feedback and quoting on this ficlet. like you, i'd love to see this revisited, as a longer story or series. we'll see what develops. the pic did inspire me to odysseus' initial isolation. but that couldn't go on forever, so another being had to come into it and who better?

when i agreed to participate in this challenge, i didn't know if i was even up to writing one. but, the pics and prompts helped, and it was time.