Patrocles does it bc he loves him but also knows the song is genuine and thus is confined to exasperation
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The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
— I have done it,“ she says. At first I do not understand. But then I see the tomb, and the marks she has made on the stone. A C H I L L E S, it reads. And beside it, P A T R O C L U S.
"Go,” she says. “He waits for you.”
In the darkness, two shadows, reaching through the hopeless, heavy dusk. Their hands meet, and light spills in a flood like a hundred golden urns pouring out of the sun.
The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
He smiled, and his face was like the sun
The Song of Achilles
—“believe your heart, your mind, and your deluded morals.”