Chapter 13
We tried yelling, struggling, pleading, anything to make him release us, but nothing worked.
"I don't want to work for a giant, what if he rapes me?" Julia cried as I shook my head. Guess I couldn't blame her for not looking at the big picture, but each time there was a shake or shift that didn't come from the giant I couldn't help but tense.
"Look where you'll be going," he said raising us up so we could see in the East a giant ship. It was a mix of yellow, black, and sickly green colors, like a corpse, and we could barely make out the figures of giants on board, most twice the size of the one holding us if not bigger, my breath catching in my throat.
"A-Attor what is that?" Julia asked in a small weak voice.
"N-Naglfar, a ship made entirely of the fingernails and toenails of dead men that holds an army of giants to go against the gods," I said my voice filled with awe, disgust, and dread, and I just knew Julia was squirming, but the giant just laughed, lowering us back to shoulder height.
"That's right, you're smart for a human," he responded, wading into a lake. An island right in the middle of it which drew my attention to a cave near the shore of the island, where you could hear ripping and snarling from inside. Sköll and Hati waited outside Sun and Moon, the divers of the sun and moon chariot, clenched in their jaws, and as we got closer I could barely make out a small shape Sun was trying to hide.
"The maiden shall go-when the great gods die; to ride her mother's road," I whispered to myself barely waking a dull memory, but then my eyes widened. It was Sun's daughter, though when she had her was a mystery. Just as I was able to break my gaze away there was a sudden tectonic shift. Whether the ground rose up beneath the giant, or fell out from under him I don't really care or know, what I do know is he fell.
"Bite!" I yelled as he held his hands out to catch himself, but didn't release us. I don't know if Julia heard me, but the moment I bit his hand she did as well, making him let out another small yell and open his hands. Luckily we landed on the island and only fell a couple feet, managing to tumble just enough so he didn't land on us, but we weren't out of danger yet. I quickly got to my feet and ran pulling Julia up, both of us running into a thick forest and jumped into the thicket, then stayed perfectly still trying to keep our breath quiet and slow our racing hearts. The giant grunted and got back to his feet, he looked around but saw no sight of us, grunting again.
"I have no time for this," he mumbled, "don't think I've forgotten about you. I'll come back and forget about being servants, I'll eat both of ya," he boomed, then kept walking, the earth shaking with each step.