My story begins long before Theseus came to Crete. When I was a child, I lived in the Palace of Knossos with my father, King Minos, He was not only the king of Crete. He was also the strongest king in the world. The other kings were afraid of him. To keep him happy, Aegeus the king of Athens and the kings of all the other cities had to send presents to him every year. One presents Aegeus had to send was seven young men and seven young women from Athens. They had to come to Crete every year and fight the bulls. All our people loved watching bullfights. When the boys and girls died in the bullfights, we gave their dead bodies to the Minotaur, the monster who lived in the Labyrinth, and he ate them. I usually watched the bullfights with my father, but I never thought much about those young people from