Letter 4

Sorry I haven't been able to write in a while. So much has been happening and we have finally reached safe land, well land that we haven't gotten kicked out of or ran out of. But that won't make much sense my dear Penelope. I must tell you what happened from the beginning. We landed on Aeolus, ruler of the winds island. He was gracious and gave us wind that would lead us straight home. What a gift it was! Alas, my crew got greedy and thought the bag full of wind was silver and gold. They ripped it open and all the wind blew away! We headed back to Aeolus and he sent us away because the gods must hate us. I’m beginning to feel that he is right. As we sailed away from him, we landed on another island, the land of the Laestrygonians, the giants who are mighty powerful. King Antiphates and his queen made my scouts dinner. We had to rush off the island for our safety. They threw boulders and sank all but my ship. We lost all our men except the ones with me. How lucky we were but also how cursed. The island we landed on seems to be safe, but we can't tell for sure since some of our men have gone out to scout the area now. Forever and always, Odysseus