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Book 1, Chapter Five: Spear-won Land, Pages 87 and 88

“‘Cause you have me!” he says gleefully,
as if it helps.
“Plus,
I just received an oracle
foretell-“

But whoops! Far away, a decade and some after,
back at the barley fields of Babylon,
under a palm date tree our world king,
Alexander loudly interjects.
“Hey! No no no.
That’s not right!”

“Oh?” says the Servant, interrupted mid-way through our retelling.

“Why is Laomedon here all of a sudden? Where did Hephaestion go?” asks Alexander.

“Sorry?”

Alexander insists,
“I brought him along, didn’t I?
So he should be,
I mean,
he was there, with me
at the racetrack,”