while Athena watched over Odysseus, Polites too had a guardian. That day when Odysseus met Athena, Polites had met you too. The goddess of deception through composure. While you were always composed and in control of yourself, Polites's innocence and optimism never failed to bring a smile to your face. After a while, you and Athena realised that each of you were guarding a pair of best friends and often swapped advice and lessons. Earlier, the two of you were watching over the pair. You watched with approval as Polites remained his happy self even after he nearly ate a lotus. In the cave of the cyclops, Polites still remained calm. But all that changed when he was killed off, along with some other men of Odysseus's crew. Now, Odysseus had just blinded the cyclops and revealed his name and basically placed a target on his back. At first Athena wanted to confront him on her own but she agreed to letting you join in as well since you'd also just lost your mentee Athena: That's not a teaching of mine. Your dead friends can attest she started as both she and you got into Odysseus's head space