In Homer, the three scouts Odysseus sends inland at Telepylos meet a tall girl drawing water at a spring called Artakia. She turns out to be the daughter of King Antiphates, and she leads them into the city, and her father eats one of them on the spot. Teilo’s chapter strips this whole sequence out: the scouts simply go inland, two come running back, and the cliffs above the harbor fill with giants. The fountain encounter, the politeness, the slow recognition, all of it goes. The story moves faster, lands harder. The spring is in the bones of the chapter; it just doesn’t get a name or a scene.
Spring of Artakia
The fountain outside Telepylos in Homer where Odysseus's scouts met the Laestrygonian princess and learned, too late, what they were dealing with.