so he made an awful commandment : every year the people must send into the labyrinth the most beautiful youth and the most beautiful maiden on the island as sacrifice to his terrible son ... -from the minotaur apollo woke in the dark the next morning to two immediate realizations : one , he was in a bed-a real bed-for the first time since before bedlam , and two , he had n't written and set out the day 's instructions for the gardeners .