Days were long on the ship, wake up, chores, stare at the sea, more chores, go to bed. You guys had a lot of free time on your hands, but nothing really to do. You mostly read or talked with a few of the soldiers, but today you remembered there was an entire mostly empty deck. perfect space to spar to keep everyone's skills up, so everyone sparred each other when given the chance. It was actually quite fun, you could go for a friendly spar, the two would stop once the others weapon touched them, or you could practically fight to the death. Having someone to step in of course if it went too far. And today, you're going against Eurylochus. Everyone who went against him lost, everyone except Odysseus. Honestly it was scary, the dude was way taller than you.

And so, the time to start the spar. The two of you were in armor, weapons in hand. "Do you guys want the intense spar or the more friendly one?" Polites asked from the sidelines, the others looked at him like he was stupid for asking that question. "We're going to be friendly about this." Eurylochus answered, only for you to shortly interrupt. "No, I want to do the fight to the death."

everyone's jaws dropped at your words, you'd be killed by the man! Eurylochus looked over at you, a confused look on his face "Are you sure?" You nodded, and Polites gave the word for the two of you to start