"Roberta Gellis - Bull God" - читать интересную книгу автора (Gellis Roberta)

ISBN: 0-671-57868-5

Cover art by Stephen Hickman

First printing, May 2000

Distributed by Simon & Schuster
1230 Avenue of the Americas
New York, NY 10020

Production by Windhaven Press, Auburn, NH
Printed in the United States of America

NO MORE
BORING LEFTOVERS!
As the guard opened the door to the Minotaur's chamber, Ariadne was intent on sliding through as small
an opening as possible and making no sound for the Minotaur's keen ears to pick up. Then she looked
around for him and froze in place, just inside the door, rigid with horror. The area near her brother and
the limp body of the attendant seemed to have been painted red, and the Minotaur seemed to be nuzzling
at the corpse.

"Minotaur!" she shrieked.

He lifted his head and she put a hand on the doorframe to support herself. For a moment her gorge rose
and bile filled her throat and mouth so that she couldn't speak. The Minotaur's face was coated with
blood, and a long sliver of skin and flesh hung from his mouth. She forced herself to swallow the
bitterness.

"Stop!" Ariadne cried. "Men don't kill and eat other men. Stop! Stop at once!"

He heaved upright, glaring. "God!" he bellowed. "Bull God!"

He put a foot on the body, seized an arm, and without apparent effort, wrenched it off. Ariadne
screamed. The Minotaur laughed.

"Sacrifice!" he said. "Gods eat men."

Shouting at him was useless. She forced herself forward, shaking with horror but reminding herself that
huge as he was, he was only eight years old. She tried to grasp his arm to pull him away from the grisly
remains, but he pushed her with such strength that she fell. He looked over his shoulder at the mangled
corpse, then turned back.

"Don't like? Go away. Minotaur like man flesh."



PART ONE:
THE BULL FROM THE SEA
CHAPTER 1