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Today's rec is Aunt Olive, coping with flighty cousins and dashed weddings and obstreperous young and middle-aged men.

What's resisted (4340 words) by Lilliburlero
Fandom: The Charioteer - Mary Renault
Rating: General Audiences
Characters: Ralph Lanyon, Laurie Odell, Aunt Olive (The Charioteer), Babs Whitely, Mrs Joyce (The Charioteer)

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Revati revisits the mortal realm and finds it shrunken: the people smaller and their squabbles sordid, all the greatness of her childhood dreams vanished as she awaited the idle moments of the gods. Her father is as surprised as she, and worse able to bear it.
On their third day they meet a straggling line: women and children in overburdened chariots and carts, men coaxing tired animals onwards. Revati, cursed with a kind heart, steps out from the eaves of the forest—least-changed of all things, though even the trees seem shorter—and helps heave a cart-wheel from a rut.
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