Freya scrambled up and immediately tried the lock.“Don’t bother.” Adrian drawled. “It won’t budge.”He didn’t lie. She gripped the bars and watched what looked like a celebration down below. There were at least twenty of the giants and she recognised some of them from their scuffle earlier though she couldn’t be sure as they all looked alike. There were a few of them that had stringy colourful patterns on their head that made her wonder if they were the females of the tribe. “They look like they are celebrating a hearty dinner later.” Said Adrian. “Between the both of us, how much fucking meat could they possibly get?” She growled. “Have you tried talking to them?” She asked. “They don’t speak any language I understand.” He replied, looking very calm and collected for someone that would soon be in itty bitty pieces and in eternal torment in some smelly gut. Down below, a fire was lit with twigs and slowly started to burn. “Is that what I think it is?” She asked and the fire refl
Freya was raised up and six pairs of eyes peered at her. The women bellowed something joyful and the joyful cries were picked up. The mother giant crushed Freya to her chest, suffocating her with her stench and she nearly passed out. Speaking excitedly, she displayed her proudly to the men. This was not exactly Freya’s intention when she crawled into the shroud but somehow, she was being mistaken for the dead baby come back to life. Warily, her eyes met the male giants, the ones that had chased her into the hut and she found their large filmy eyes narrowed suspiciously at her. A male giant said something, making her tense as she prepared to spring out of her smelly disguise. He pointed to her and spoke harshly but the mother giant snatched her away from him and her words became harder and even harsher than the men. Did he recognise her?She waited with bated breath to see which way her luck would swing and for the first time, it seemed Lady Luck was smiling at her today. The male
Freya’s body locked up and her cry of shock barely made it out of her throat. He wouldn’t die, she reminded herself as the mother giant forced her face towards her, determined to feed her her breast. She had found herself a pretty good camouflage but she simply refused to take Giant-breast milk. She had no more weapon on her of course and was ready to spring out of her swaddles and blow her cover when the mother-giant paused and all of the giants grew silent. Freya looked to find Adrian in the middle of the fire, his legs folded under him as the fires raged. He wasn’t burning. Intrigued, the giants hurried forward and stared and the mother giant suddenly burst into applause, followed by many others. They thrilled and grinned excitedly, testing the fire and snatching their fingers away when it burned and in the middle of it all, Adrian didn’t move a muscle. “Fucking show off.” She muttered, helluva intrigued herself. A few moments later, Adrian climbed out of the fire and the giants
Turned out, being a baby didn’t mean Freya had a lot of time to herself. On the contrary, she was always busy, if she wasn’t put on display and being gawked at, she was being shifted from hip to hip while she tried to suppress her murderous instincts. By the end of the day, she was more exhausted than if she spent the entire day fighting men.Night came and the moons climbed high into the sky. The struggle got even harder as she had to fight to resist her more primitive half, to keep from shifting and exposing herself. Eventually she had to feign sleep and she was finally carried to her cot in her room and tucked to sleep. She watched with one eye cracked open as the mother-giant finally left and she sat up and threw the covers. “Fucking hell!” She growled. “There’s no way I’m doing this again tomorrow.”She climbed out of the cot. First things first, she needed to clean up her tracks and there was a dead giant baby whose body would tell too much stories. She dropped to her knees an
Freya snuck down the corridor, alerted for the umpteenth time that there was an incoming giant and she hid until the huge female figure had ambled away. Safe to say that stealth was not one of the giants’ trademarks. She snuck onto the roof and looked around, remaining hiding behind the chimney to avoid discovery by the giants far off in the cave-houses. There were children-giants playing in the dirt and adults walking, talking, laughing. They all looked dumb, she would never have suspected them to have such ambition as to kill their leader every ten years just because she hasn’t been able to birth. She shook her head and left, what they did to each other wasn’t her business. She soon found Adrian after she snuck into a meeting room and hid behind a pillar. He was in the middle of the room, facing the Martoshi who was looking far from pleased and the strange creature Nehemey was there too. “She says your life was spared to entertain, do you now refuse to serve?” Nehemey asked fir
“Twenty years ago, a giant hunting group came upon my mother and decided she was good enough for dinner.” When Nehemey spoke, it was toneless and emotionless. “My mother ran for her dear life, and hidden within her voluminous cloaks was the baby she desperately wanted to save, me.”“She was only one woman though, and already sick so she was no match for the giants, they hunted her down and ripped out her throat, and the starving giants feasted on her flesh in the same mountains. I remember everything, the sounds they made as they tore into her, as they swallowed her.”Adrian frowned. “Impossible. You said you were not even born.”“I was nearly due, I remember even being inside my mother’s womb. I remember her gasping breaths when she ran, her scream when she was caught, her pleas to spare her baby’s life but the giants didn’t understand her native language.”How difficult was it to spot a pregnant woman? Adrian wasn’t sure it would have ever made a difference if they understood her la
"What the hell?!" Freya spun around to find one of the members of the Wild Hunt. "Are you following me across realms?""We are always with you, you just refuse to see us." He replied but she was already shaking her head. "No. I picked up a stupid ball that I never should have and I'll return it, once I find the owner once again." She pointed out. "I never want to see you again." She spun around, ready to leave despite not knowing where she was going but he was right there in front of her again. "No. You picked the ball because it was your destiny." She laughed, sounding nearly manic. "It's crazy, how many people claim to know some part of my destiny when even I don't know what I'll be doing tomorrow.""You are Shinay-" He began. "No I am not." She interrupted. "I'm not whatever you all wish me to be-""You are Shinay." He repeated. She shook her head and retreated. "No. If this is a dream, I want to wake up. Now! Let me out!""You are Shinay, The Awaited one."Her legs stopped
While the investigation for the murder of Orroc was ongoing, it seemed to have shot The Martoshi's paranoia into the sky and she was there with her all morning, humming songs that made Freya's head hurt. The female was desperate for her to survive and Freya thought it would break her when she finally disappeared. The sooner the better though, so that the Martoshi can get into the business of creating another heir, if it wasn't already too late for her. Finally, the Martoshi was called upon and her nanny took over. This one was a simple female and half an hour later, she was snoring wildly. Freya silently climbed out of the cot, pulled her cloak from its hiding place and threw it on. After watching the outskirts for a good while, she figured out the pattern of the patrolling giants. They did seem at alert, on the lookout for something. It would be tough but she thought she and Adrian would be able to leave. Excited, she left to find him, tracing his scent. Some minutes later, she