text: [Themes: edutainment]
  
  You are adrift in an endless void.
  
  The world around you is dark.
  
  The soothing nothingness takes away your fears, your despair and your sadness. Slowly all of your thoughts about your crew members and your friends fade away, leaving nothing behind but a comforting silence.
  
  Eventually even your greatest worries about the fate of Greece are reduced to nothing, you are at peace...
  
  Suddenly a thought comes crashing into your mind with the strength of Zeus' lightning bolts. How can you rest while thousands of people depend on you? How can you rest when the world you know is about to be destroyed?
  
  Two thoughts are battling inside your head, which one will win?
  
  > say "The fate of the world depends on me, I can't rest while many suffer. I have to get out of this place."
  The bright sunlight pierces your eyes. You can hear the sounds of waves breaking on the shores nearby. As your vision finally focuses you take notice of your surroundings. You are lying on a white beach, nearby the violet sea. Large forests border at the sands.
  
  You guess this is an island, but how big is it exactly? Is it inhabited, and by who? The memories of your recent visit to the island of the cyclopes are still vividly present within your mind. You try to get up to explore your surroundings, but a sharp pain shoots through your limbs.
  
  Clenching your teeth you try once again to stand up. With a great feat of determination you manage to stand up. Shaking with suppressed pain and desperation you mange to take your first step on this new-found land. Then follows a second step, and a third. And then your vision turns red. The white sands of the beach come crashing towards you as exhaustion takes control of your limbs.
  
  As you slowly regain conciousness, you notice that the pain racking your body is fading away. You keep lying on the sandy ground, waiting for the pain to dissipate completely. As you lay there you notice sweet music in the distance, a woman's voice, a song.
  
  Far from his lands and far from his home
  
  A hero turns up, all alone.
  
  His ship and his friend he lost to the sea
  
  But now he is here
  
  Alone with
  
  Me
  
  As this sweet song keeps repeating inside your mind you notice that keeping concious is getting harder and harder. The heavy sleeps once again presses down on your eyelids.
  
  > wake up a few hours later...
  'Awaken, valiant hero. You are safe here.'
  
  You slowly open your eyes and immediately notice that the pain has gone from your body. You feel like you are full of strength, like you could battle the titans themselves without falling.
  
  'I am glad that you fully recovered from your dangerous journey.'
  
  Now you notice the honey-sweet voice which speaks to you. You check your surrounding and see that you are in a vaulted cave, decorated with lavish furniture. Sculptures depicting the travels of Odysseus line the walls of the cave and golden oil-lamps illuminate it. Richly decorated musical instruments lay on a table with beautiful wood carving. A hearth fuelled by cedar wood spreads a pleasant heat throughout the room and fills it with a delightful scent. You only now notice the expensive couch next to your bed and the beautiful woman upon it. She has arms as white as snow and beautiful hair. Her face is caring and her dress is made from the finest silk.
  
  While the sight of all this splendour fills your head you ask the mysterious woman: 'noble mistress, honourable host, could you please tell me where I am and what kind of place this is?'
  
  The woman lifts herself from her couch and speaks to you. 'I am the goddess Calypso, great teller of tales, I found you on my island Ogygia after your ship was destroyed and your crew perished because of the wrath of Poseidon. Here, on my island you will be safe.'
  
  'Radiant goddess, I thank you for your hospitality, but alas, I cannot stay here. The gods have burdened me with a heavy task. Many cities will be destroyed and many people will perish if I will not complete my journey. Please, with your consent, let me build a ship with the trees on your island, please provide me with food and drink, so that I may please the gods by fulfilling my journey.'
  
  'Dear bard, from far you came and far you have to go. I know of your quest and I know the gods approached you, for all the immortal gods are not unknown to each other, even when they live far apart. However, I cannot let you go. Forget your journey and your quest for Greece will fall, no matter what you try. Sweet traveller I will keep you here as my guest until you want to accompany me as my husband. I will bestow immortality upon on you and give you eternal youth, so we may live here until the end of time itself. Forget your worries about your home and the gods. Stay here, with me.'
  
  > say "Fair goddess. You have cared for me in my time of greatest need. You have spoken to me as an equal, as if I am one of the immortal gods myself. Love fills my heart as I speak these words to you: I will stay here with you."
  The face of Calypso immediately shows a wide smile.
  
  'My dear lover, joy fills my heart at the sound of these words. Are these really your intentions or are they just part of some elaborate plot? Please, promise me by the immortal gods that your heart is truy filled with love.'
  
  'My dear Calypso, by the immortal gods I vow that my heart is filled with love for you. Please, let me live here, by your side so that we may be happy together, until the end of time itself.'
  
  'Traveller, you have no idea how happy you have made me. Many years I have spent here alone on my island. The life of a goddess is not always pretty. Now that you are here my world has suddenly turned bright. I shall grant you immortality and eternal youth. Great bard, forget all of your troubles and doubts. Please, take my hand in marriage, so we may both live together, happy.''
  
  Many years pass by and you and Calypso live happily together on Ogygia. You are now immortal and fear or pain are just fading memories to you. You no longer think of your journey or of Greece. Hermes, the messenger of the gods has only once visited your island to tell you that Greece had fallen into civil war.
  
  Centuries pass by until you and Calypso finally decide to leave the mortal realm altogether. You settle on mount Olympus, where the immortal gods all reside. The promises Calypso made you all those years ago were all true: you are both happy together, until time itself ends.