Warren chooses enemy

"The keys appear identical to me," he said after studying the dwarf. "I think the game is selecting which foe we believe we can overcome."


"I hate to be cruel," Kendra said, "but I'm thinking the dwarf."


"I would choose him last of all," Warren said. "He carries no weapon, which leads me to believe he must be strong in magic. And he looks the easiest at first glance, which almost certainly means he is the most deadly."


"Then who?" Kendra asked. The Minotaur carried a heavy mace. The Cyclops wielded a cudgel. The blue woman held a sword in each hand. The hobgoblin, as Warren had named the snakelike man, clutched a pair of axes. And the half-spider man bore a javelin and a whip.


"I suspect the Minotaur may be the lesser of these evils," Warren said at length. "I would no sooner choose the woman than the dwarf, and a Cyclops is nearly as adroit as he is strong. Of the others, the Minotaur carries the most cumbersome weapon. His mace will limit his reach and hamper his ability to avoid the tip of my spear."

Chapter 19