The journey wasn't going well so far, they lost a few soldiers to a cyclops, a lot to Poseidon, and a few got turned into pigs. And now they were going down to the underworld, great? No. Absolutely not. All Odysseus heard were the screams of his dead men.

558 MEN, WHO DIED UNDER YOUR COMMAND

Then Polites' and Odysseus' mother's souls showed up and that broke Odysseus more, he stared at the ground completely silent. His body shook slightly as the souls of the dead continued to haunt him. The other soldiers wanted say something but didn't, Would you?