Odysseus was born in a Spanish port town, shackled by a different name and a certain set of expectations. His youth was spent playing with street urchins and the sons of sailors in the port, selectively absorbing lessons of etiquette and culture, badgering amused cousins for sword-fighting lessons once he could shift, and general good-natured troublemaking. Lively and quick to defend the less fortunate despite their standing, he was popular among his immediate peers, and his parents were permissive in his adolescence — believing that the antics of their “tomboy daughter” were harmless enough.

However, when Odie came of age, this tolerance abruptly ended. He was to marry the son of an affluent family, to beget children, to bring his family into greater esteem in the eyes of the courts. Odie, who had come to realize why specific cultural mores felt so stifling and wrong to him, refused this. Following a verbal altercation with his father, who told Odie he could “pretend” what he wanted as long as he “did his duty” and acted “properly” in court, the young man disowned his family and left.

Familiar with the docks, Odysseus stowed away on a foreign merchant vessel — a scheme short-lived, as he was discovered merely a couple days into the voyage. The crew nearly threw him overboard (their rations of dried meat and fresh water too tightly measured to waste on a stranger), but the captain was a nurturing and spiritual man who sympathized with Odie’s plight. He was permitted to stay, in exchange for a debt of manual labor. Though exhausted and callused from work, hungry and a little bit dehydrated, Odie made it to port.

He didn’t stay there long, as the conditions of his debt weren’t yet satisfied; he was to crew the same ship until the next stop in the Mediterranean. Rather than view this as punishment or servitude, Odysseus had a romantic notion about his time at sea: crossing choppy waves, navigating by the stars, all of it was part of a great adventure. He absorbed little information about proper sailing (although he became handy with ropework), but learned other things from the eclectic group of sailors and the various port towns they docked in.

However, when their ship attempted its first voyage across the Atlantic, bringing trade goods to a new market, a terrible storm wrecked the vessel. Thrown overboard, Odie barely managed to survive the waves, clinging to flotsam as his crewmates met their own disastrous fates.

Miraculously, Odysseus was able to last the night, and another ship (manned by a more experienced captain who stowed their sails at the first sign of poor weather) came across the wreckage that dawn. Its captain wanted to give a wide berth, but one of the crewmembers, a wolf named Montague, spotted Odie and convinced them to rescue the man. It was Montague who tended to him, too, the best he could: keeping the traumatized dog company and nursing him through sickness resulting from his near-drowning. As a result, once he was coaxed out of his state of shock, Odysseus bonded quickly with Montague.

This burgeoning friendship was strong enough that, once the ship docked in Barbados and Montague decided to take another to North America proper, Odie accompanied him.

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