“When we arrived in Thrace, a flotilla of Trojan refugees, our first purpose was to find our kinsman, Polydorus, at the court of king Aenos. Our reception by the king was not as we expected, and we learned that Polydorus died shortly after arriving from Troy. Something did not feel right, but we believed Aenos was an ally. We paid him for a village site on the coast and began building a settlement there.
“It was a good site with a source of fresh water, but building materials were scarce. Therefore, I decided we should dismantle our ships and use the lumber to build our first shelters. We beached along the shore and began tearing the ships down when we found a man sitting in the sand watching us. I approached him and asked, ‘Who are you man? Where is your home?’
“He answered, ‘I am Cnemo
