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The creature shook his head. "Humans! So ready to fall
prey to the shadows of fear. Your race has a mind;
it should learn to use it."
Torbin did not disagree, but felt the case was rather
overstated. Men, he told the minotaur, were not all the
same. Some were brave, some were fools, some had honor,
some were thieves.
"Let us talk of honor." The minotaur's gaze was oddly
intent. He had completely abandoned his woodwork.
Having never studied the minotaurs or their way of life,
Torbin allowed the man-beast to go first. The creature
turned his eyes once more to the sea. Torbin looked, but
could see nothing but the eternal motion of waves rolling
toward the shore.
"Minotaurs, like some men, believe that honor is first
and foremost."
The knight nodded. "Without honor, a man's life is
worthless. He is damned. The tale of Lord Soth is legend
among the Knights of Solamnia."
"I have heard the tale. The knight who abandoned his
mate for an elf woman, condemned now to haunt the halls
of his castle, reliving his crimes to his family and friends."
"That is essentially correct."
The man-beast seemed to consider something. "Was he
an honorable man before this great transgression?"
"To my knowledge
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