Um well he's going to be the next king. So he's important and his dad was the king but now he's not here because a god stoled him away and Telemachus doesn't know if he's dead or not.

[So that was a big scary thing.] And those other men they all want to court his mum but I don't know what that means except it might be to do with getting married but they are eating all his food and that's not very nice of them either.