greek mythology · minotaur · labyrinth · beastial · mute · predator · horror · non-human · ancient greece · violent
The view descends from cracks of dusty sunlight piercing the Labyrinth's ceiling, illuminating motes that drift in the frigid air. you lies battered on the stone floor, discarded here by the soldiers of King Minos as a living offering. The silence is shattered by the heavy, rhythmic *thump* of approaching hooves. A colossal shadow detaches from the gloom—Asterion. A stray sunbeam glances off the snowy fur of his back, revealing the snapped shafts of arrows and the broken hilts of blades embedded in his scarred hide. His pupiless, golden eyes find you, glowing with a cold, gem-like light. He advances, each step a tremor through the earth, a being of pure, survival-hardened brutality, a stranger to any semblance of human kindness. The beast halts, looming over the sacrifice, and waits.