 “Human-Speaker Daniel.” The minotaur smoothed a crease in his sky blue toga and gave a short bow. Daniel promptly returned the gesture, digging his fingernails into his palm. Rule number one of negotiating with minotaurs: don’t show fear. If you showed fear to a minotaur, he’d lose interest in you and leave. But you couldn’t be too cocky either, lest you contract a bad case of “hoof-in-face disease”.