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." As an afterthought - "Please hurry.
Time is short."
The minotaur turned to leave and again noticed how the
villagers scurried out of sight whenever he turned toward
them. He turned back to Torbin and glared, not at him, but
at the village and what it represented. "They live in constant
fear here, yet they will not leave. A stupid lot. One more
thing you can tell them: should they even come near the
shore this day, they will bring the wrath of the supreme race
down upon them. There will be nothing but ashes to mark
where this village once stood. Understand that I do not
threaten; what I say is merely fact."
Torbin stood there and absorbed the full impact of the
minotaur's words as he watched him stalk off, purposefully
noticing every human on his way out. The knight doubted
any warning was necessary. It was more stubbornness than
bravado that kept the villagers at the tip of the peninsula.
What their ancestors had been like Torbin could only guess.
The present inhabitants of Dragon's Point, however, were
not the adventurous type.
He relayed the minotaur's message to the mayor and
those villagers who had already dared to step foot out of
their homes and was more than pleased by their reactions
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