Imagine if Athena could grant Odysseus, Penelope and Telemachus a blessing. Where for the next 20 years, they don’t age.
Returning the lost 20 years to them, in a way that she only can.
It doesn’t fix any of the hurt and longing for any of them, but it gives them time to recover. To catch up on what was lost…
Ithaca gets to bloom under the rule of a King who was lost for so long.
And our beloved family gets to take their time, and they value every moment of it.
Granting immortality, is past the capabilities of the Goddess. A matter that would have to be brought before Zeus.
But what is 20 years to a God? Nothing. The Olympus wouldn’t even care to notice, if some mortals lived longer than they should. A case too boring to even look into.
And while it would be that way for the Gods. For Odysseus and his family, it’s everything.
