Odysseus returns

After 20 years,  I arrive in Ithaca. Athena was there and told me about the situation at home. People were trying to take the hand of my wife, because they thought I was dead. Penelope was taking care of my palace. She planned to kill my son, Telemachus, before he could get my land.  Telemachus hoped I would return. He journeyed to Pylos and Sparta to learn about my fate. Athena disguises me as a beggar and directs me to the hut of Eumaeus. Then Athena appears to me. Only the dogs and I noticed her. She walked over to me and said,” Son of Laertes and the gods of old, Odysseus, master of land ways and seaways, dissemble to your son no longer now. This time has come: tell him how you together will bring doom on the suitors in the town. I shall not be far distant then, for I myself desire battle.” She took her golden wand and made my cloak pure white and the knit tunic fresh around me. She made me limber and young and no longer did I have a grey beard. The next thing I know my son was thunderstruck. He looked down and away as though it was a god. My son doesn’t think it’s me. I explain to him that I am him and his bitter fortune and his wanderings are mine and that my change of skin was  a charm from Athena. He then throws his arms around me and we cried.  He asks about my journey home. I tell him that I came back to make plans with him to kill our enemies. I tell him to count up all the suitors and let me know. I can tell he is kind of nervous. We come up with a plan. I tell him what he needs to do then I tell him if he’s a son of mine he’s a blood of mine and let no one know what we are doing.