CHAPTER 12
The TombAs Bladud and Hermias travelled a road that wound through steep wooded hills, they spoke of many things, not least the mystery of the flight of Daedalus.
‘He must have been a great necromancer,’ Bladud mused, ‘that he could achieve such a flight.’
‘Maybe it was not by magic that he flew, but by science,’ Hermias suggested.
‘If that is so, why now cannot all men fly?’
Hermias agreed this was a puzzle.
‘It may be that he held back his secret from others.’ He reminded Bladud that though Daedalus might have been a genius, he was also a ruthless and unscrupulous man. ‘He fled first from Athens to Crete with the shadow of a murder on his conscience. Then he fled from Crete to Cumae because he had betrayed his benefactor, King Minos, by helping Theseus escape from the lab
