After our confrontation with the Kyklopes, we visited a few islands before landing on Aiaia, the island of Kirke. I saw smoke coming from a house on the island, and we decided to split up into two groups. My group would stay behind, and the other would go check out the house. As soon as they left, Eurylokhos ran back, saying she had made my men vanish. I quickly ran alone back up to the house. Before I arrived, Hermes met me and directed me on how to defeat her. I was not tricked by her wine, and I was able to free my men. We then stayed and feasted there for a year. It was time to go home, and I asked Kirke if we were able to leave. She allowed us to leave, but warned us that we would have to endure even more hardships.
I felt terrible that I had to give the news that we would have to go through even harder journeys. After I had told them, "They felt so stricken, upon hearing this, they sat down wailing loud, and tore their hair," (182). My men are so sick of fighting monsters and enduring all of this terrible pain. The truth is so am I. The best thing for us is to go home. I know that these new journeys are unavoidable, I just hope that we can get through them without losing any of my great men.
Kirke gave me the news that I would to have to to on even more journeys. She said, "...but home you may not go unless you take a strange way round and come to the cold homes of Death and pale Persephone," (180). No matter what I want to do, I always have to do something for someone else in order to acheive what I want. It will never be easy. Nobody will ever just allow me to go home. In order for a person to acheive their goal, they have to endure hardship.
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