Literature
NaNoWriMo2 The Real Trojan War
How did Paris end up in such a compromising position? As in any epic, his heritage has to be recounted in minute detail.
I have always thought Paris was "special", not all there, the apple the fell hardest from the tree.
Paris, like all heroes, had a prophecy told about him the night before he was born. His mother, Hecuba, had a nightmare that she was giving birth to a torch. The palace seer told Hecuba and Priam that this meant that the child would bring about the destruction of Troy.
Like all worried parents of heroes, they conspired to get rid of the child, because they could not bring themselves to kill it. And like all heroes, he