[ She pointedly ignores his remark, just a she'd pointedly ignored the question about how many sacrifices she'd seen. Some things are better left unsaid. Maybe it'll be like the Mist, and he'll just forget the things that are...less than desirable. She's finding more and more she misses that.

Because he's watching her, he'll probably notice that she rolls her eyes, as if being asked about Greek myth and correcting it is a normal thing for her. (Which, it is, but, that's not normal to other people.) ]

There were sacrifices in the story, but that's never what it was about. The sacrifices were a result of Minos' hubris, just like the birth of the Minotaur himself. Minos thought he could ignore an order from the Gods. It cost both him and his wife. The Labyrinth, the Minotaur... They were the result of one man trying to think he was bigger, better. Thinking that just because he was a son of Zeus, he could do anything and make the world his plaything.

[ While she's describing this as if giving a lecture, still, there's an undercurrent to her voice. King Minos... That guy was a real bastard. ]

So... I don't think of it as a story about sacrifice. I think of it as a story of a tyrant.