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Cracker Jack always returns to the cross in the field  by sunset. Each day, he slipped into a semi-conscious slumber, aware of his surroundings but truly living in his dreams. This day, the warmth of the winter sun reminded him of past fires and brought back vivid memories of Sienna. With his arms stretched over the arms of the cross, secured by vines, he drifted into vivid dreams. In his dream, the event that led to his imprisonment as a field guardian replayed itself. He scoured the scene for new perspectives—what must Lylas have gone through? The weight of his remorse for his actions was unbearable. Lylas, this beautiful girl, had been an object of his drunken desire. Believing the female body a complete living work of art, his only wish to hold her and feel the beauty of her form. Complicating this turn of events, “Doros” (as he was known in those times) was the close relationship he had with Dionysus over the last 20 years. Doros even made trips to Mt. Olympus ...