CHAPTER 2
You walk upon a bridge overlooking a deep dark pit. Enclosed by metal fencing, still, you feel ill looking down. Where does this lead? You wonder. The bridge, then, twists downwards into a voluminous entrance; the gate to one of the towers.
"If they breach the gate, we will hold them here."
"Then it is only a matter of time?"
"Do not think like that. We can hold here for a long time; this fortress was made with an enduring patience. It is simply, for them, a test of wether they can withstand these mazeways."
He looks downwards: "I have not shown you the full might of this fortress."
A wounded soldier is thrown off the palisade beyond the abyss; cackling mouths and steps barrel down the pillar lined deep wall.
You see Panacea there: did he follow me? The sounds of swinging and screaming fire bellow beyond. Arrows follow you as you run deeper into the fortress.
Then, a scream in a tongue you do not understand; and the heaving stomp of a demon-blooded battle beast, the ground wills itself shook, almost afraid of it.
The pillars crack! The foundations groan!
It's a giant man! With eyes of fire, corpses appear beneath his feet; and they fly about like swatted bugs.
"A minotaur!" sings the air
After all this time you have not heard the soldier fall.