It was like any other day. I was alone, watching the disgusting suitors kill our livestock and steal our things. I wished my father was there to show them off. Well I was minding my business when a stranger approached our door. I brough him in, and we started talking about my father, and the problems I had with the suitors. He heard what I had to say, and he gave me a plan of what I should do to get rid of the suitors and find my lost father. His words were so powerful, I had to wonder whether or not he was immortal. He only stayed for a short while, but I remembered his words and followed them. The next day I held a council for the town. I told the suitors to get away from my father's house. They replied with laughter and continued their destruction, but I know that they will pay greatly later.
I feel terrible about watching the suitors take over my father's house without any trouble, but I can't stop them by myself. They get whatever they want, "...lusty suitors casting dice...at ease on hides of oxen--oxen they had killed." Without my powerful father, there is nobody here to stick up for my mother and me. I need someone, like my father, to get things back under control here at home.
With the surprise guest coming to my house, it shows that there will always be hope. When Mentes told me, "...men in times to come will speak of you respectfully." Although there are always bad situations, like the one I'm in now, good things can always come from it. Every cloud has its silver lining. There will always be hope in dire situations.
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