*.| "Green the world with open arms..." |.

Polites had muttered this multiple times to remind himself not to chicken out on this abandoned island, but he was already quivering in his sandles while holding his sword towards the trees. Odysseus had sailed the ships to an empty-- or seemed to be empty --island for food, sending Polites and Diomedes to search for food. He and Diomedes had split up, and that's when Polites had heard a growl from the pines... Of course, Polites was Terrified, and quickly unsheathed his sword.

That's when he saw you

"... Oh dear..."*