The Minotaur sat grumpily in the center of The Labyrinth, wishing he could masturbate the way male humans did. With hooves, rather than hands, there was no way he could hold onto his cock, so he had to settle for the extremely unsatisfactory alternative of rubbing his erection against the rough side rails of the enclosure that was his home. That produced more pain than pleasure, and he was hardly ever able to cum that way anyhow.
Earlier that year, the situation had been vastly better. The city state of Athens had sent the seven young men and seven young women who were demanded as tribute by King Minos, and the bisexual Minotaur enjoyed frolicking carnally with them. Everybody had fun while they were together, after which the Athenians were relegated to being slaves of the king, and The Minotaur had been getting hardly any sexual action since then.
Some people are under the mistaken impression that The Minotaur devoured those who were sent to him, but this was a fallacy and quite a foolish one. His muzzle was that of a bull, and his teeth were also bovine, suitable for eating cattle fodder, but no good at all for rending flesh. His attendants provided fresh grass and hay for him, besides providing their friendship in general, but they were not permitted to let him out of his pen or off his chain.
He and they all enjoyed their relationship, for The Minotaur was friendly and intelligent, but he did wish his sex life could be more regular. The 14 young Athenians had shared some great times with him, once they were aware they were just to be used sexually rather than being eaten alive, but their presence lasted no more than a month. Since that time, he almost had to do without.
The only respite he was able to get was that once in a while a frightened young woman was forced to join him in The Labyrinth. She was always somebody who had been convicted of doing something contrary to the king's draconian laws, and being fed to him was her punishment. Once she got over her terror, as had the Athenians, such women were better than nothing, but they were very scarce and never very attractive or personable.
It wasn't so much that there was any particular shortage of female miscreants. The problem was that the king, for some unknown reason, had decreed that only virgins over the age of 18 years old were to be punished by being turned over to The Minotaur. At that time and that place, almost all the women were married before reaching that age, and those who weren't tended to be ugly or have other extreme physical or other drawbacks. The Minotaur was always too horny to object, but he wished his sexual partner could be a really beautiful woman for a change.
One day, to his great surprise, that was what happened. A woman, just barely 18 years old, was apprehended fishing in Cretan waters. She was a native of one of the smaller nearby islands, so she had been convicted of poaching. The young fisherwoman, who also happened to be a genuine beauty, was examined by the court physicians, who really enjoyed that part of their jobs. When it was found that her maidenhead was still intact, the doctors abandoned their plan of gang raping her and turned her over to the jailers, to be fed to The Minotaur.
Daphne, which was the name of the young fisherwoman, was frightened more than she could have believed. Stories of The Minotaur were spread all over Crete and the neighboring islands, and she believed she was going to be eaten alive. She especially regretted not giving in to the young swain who wanted to deflower her, because the lack of virginity would have meant that her life would be spared. When the day of her execution arrived, she was divested of all her clothing and her body was carefully washed. Totally naked and bound hand and foot to the four posts in the center of the enclosure, she was left there to meet her fate.
When she saw The Minotaur, Daphne screamed, for he was a terrible sight, besides what she expected him to do to her. He stood and walked, erect but bent over, on his rear hooves, and was eight feet tall, with muscular arms that also ended in hooves. His head was that of a large, black bull, with horns protruding from its sides. The Minotaur's eyes were small and red, and they seemed to blaze when he stared at her. The staring was necessary because his eyesight was poor, which was made up for by his keen hearing and sense of smell, but Daphne didn't know that. The maiden screamed again when the monster roared his delight at the sight of her lovely naked form as it lay waiting for him, bound and helpless.
She really had no reason to fear him so much, but that was not what she had always heard. The monster's reputation for devouring maidens had a certain amount of truth to it, but he didn't eat them in the way that was expected by the women who were turned over to him. The happy roar that he uttered on seeing her was not of hunger, but of lust, for he was as horny as he had ever been, and was expressing his eagerness to slake his lust on the body of the beautiful and helpless captive. He would fuck her, of course, but not until he had eaten her pussy, because he enjoyed that almost as much. His preference for that was the reason for his unsavory, although undeserved reputation.
As The Minotaur approached, he got to all four hooves and, when he was between Daphne's legs, he knelt and spoke to her: "Raise your legs and rest them on my shoulders," he requested.
The ropes that held the comely fisherwoman in place had a great deal of slack, because they were intended to keep her from running away, not to keep her from moving around. The keepers of The Minotaur knew what he was going to do with the maiden, and they liked to watch. Since it would be a better show if he and she were enjoying themselves, they made sure the maidens offered to him were able to move around freely. They were aware of the half-truths that were circulating about their charge, and they took amusement in encouraging them, especially with the women they tied up and left for him.
Daphne hesitated, but decided to do what he had told her. Kneeling between her legs and speaking to her, The Minotaur seemed less fearsome, than before, although he was still as ugly as he had seemed to be when she first saw him at a distance. However, she felt it to be a good idea to try to do what he said, if she was to have any chance of surviving.
"What are you going to do?" she asked, while raising her legs as directed.