"I tried to give into the bull's blood for a long time, be the animal King Minos saw me as, the nightmare Zeus had fashioned as a joke, but…eventually, my mother's blood won out. I watched. I learned. I studied the hunters I hid from, and then the farmers whose land I circled. One night, I watched a pack of travelers turn into wolves. They sniffed me out immediately, but they had no qualms about my company, wild and untamed as I was. They taught me to cook, to speak, to survive with dignity. And they introduced me to the wider world of our kind, halflings and beasts and monsters."
