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• Olive & Salt by afterteal

  Fandoms: The Odyssey (Movie 2026), The Devil Wears Prada (2006)  

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  • F/F
  • Work in Progress

  02 Aug 2026

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  • Penelope/Callianeira
  • Penelope&Callianeira
  • Emily Charlton/Andrea Sachs
  • Emily Charlton & Andrea Sachs
  • Penelope
  • Callianeira (Original Character)
  • Odysseus
  • Telemachus
  • Antinous
  • Melantho
  • Eurycleia
  • Eumaeus
  • Mentor - Character
  • Yearning
  • Longing
  • Forbidden Love
  • Sapphic
  • Greek Mythology - Freeform
  • The Odyssey - Freeform
  • Not Canon Compliant
  • Queen Penelope - Freeform
  • Ladies-in-waiting - Freeform
  • Mutual Pining
  • Emotional Infidelity
  • Hurt/Comfort
  • court intrigue
  • Faithful Penelope
  • Original Female Character(s) - Freeform
  • palace politics
  • Angst
  • Bittersweet

  Summary

  Every night, Queen Penelope unweaves what she has woven by day, buying herself another dawn while the kingdom waits for a king who may never return.

  Among the quiet halls of Ithaca walks Callianeira, a young handmaiden whose loyalty begins as duty and slowly becomes something far more dangerous.

  Between candlelight, whispered conversations, and twenty years of waiting, love finds two women who were never meant to choose each other.

  Some stories are written in glory. Others are written in silence.

  Language:

  English

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  Chapters:

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