Myths, Legends, and Rituals. What Ajax assumed was the Chief Tauren/Bull-Man/Minotaur/or-whatever stepped forward. He looked down at the still body that Ajax had killed and then looked up at Ajax. He pointed at the body.

"You... did this... human?" he asked in very slow, broken English."You can talk?" Ajax blinked in surprise."You are rude." The Chieftain retorted.

"You come to our home, make war, kill one of our numbers, and now you presume that we cannot speak." He shook his head in what Ajax perceived was a sad fashion."To be fair, your boy here did take a woman against her will to rape." Ajax pointed out.

"Where I come from, that's a crime.""Is it not a greater crime, human, to let one's species die out?" The Chieftain inquired rhetorically.

"Look around you, we are not that many in number and we do what we must to survive. You humans are blind to such things as you have taken over the world that we once ruled.""I don't even know who you are.""We are the min'valotauros," the Chieftain said slowly.

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