Billy and the Greeks (Excerpt)
They entered the gates and Billy felt something soft rush past him. Suddenly lines started rushing through his head, “And Aphrodite put a cloak of invisibility around Paris and whisked him up into the high places of Troy.” Billy recovered quickly enough to reach out and grab onto the invisibility cloak. Hector grabbed hold and pulled. Into Billy’s arms came a cloak.
Hector was shocked but recovered quickly and said, “Paris, what are you doing here, you should be fighting Menelaus. Also how did you get here?”
Peris defended himself with, “We were both fighting pretty well and the Heralds called it off.” As he massaged a red streak on his chin.
“I doubt that,” said Hector. “I can hear the Greeks shouting they won, what happened.”
Then Billy stepped in saying, “Stop, I know what happened because everything that is happening is written down in my head. This is an invisibility cloak. It was an easy way for him to escape.” He held out the old shepherd’s cloak.
Hector said, “This is a breakthrough that might just have won us the war. Come. I have a plan.” And with that, he walked out of Troy and into his war tent.
Billy and Paris followed. During a lengthy war counsel, the following plan emerged. First, in the middle of the night, Hector would go, under the protection of the invisibility cloak, to the Greek camp. Silently, he would capture all the Greek leaders. After Hector returned, the entire Trojan army would chase the Greeks onto their ships and make them retreat. These Greeks could return and tell their countrymen about the defeat of their army.