Author's note: I'm not dead. I've just been slacking off and trying to find the motivation to keep writing. Along with trying to gather ideas and plan ahead. I hope you enjoy.

Inma arrived home with Jack in her satchel. She quickly ran to her room, book in her arms and slammed the door shut. Jack bustled and bounced inside of her satchel and his view was flipped upside down as Inma turned the bag around in order to free him.

Jack fell flat on his butt onto the cushions below and bounced on the mattress with a few tiny hops. He looked up at inma with a frown on his face, struggled to get to his feet as the bed wobbled below, and stood up. He stretched his back by placing his hands behind him and arched his back out. He heard a noticeable cracking sound.

"It's always a bumpy ride in there. So what was the deal with that lady?" Jack asked as he looked at the strange bracelet that inma held in her hands along with the ancient book.

"Is that a book? Where you looking for something like that? It looks so old." Jack kept asking questions and Inma placed the book down next to him a bit saddened but spoke softly.

"I'm not sure what the lady meant at the booth." Inma said as brought the bracelet up to her face, and looked at it intensively. She wiggled it to try to see if it would glow and do anything, but nothing happened. Inma lowered her head with disappointment and tossed the bracelet to the side.

She layed down her her stomach onto the bed and looked at the book. It was ragged and old, dust littered the front covert and it's title was unclear. Inma brushed her hand along the front cover and saw a cloud of dust rise into the air. The sky outside was cold and she turned on an oil lamp to keep the room lit. Jack wobbled over to the book and tried to make sense of it. It was in a language that was no where near what he was used too.

"What does it say Inma?" Jack asked as he looked over the strange symbols and wording on the cover. Inma shrugged her shoulders.

"I'm not sure. Let me turn the pages a bit a see what it says." Inma said as she grabbed the edge of the cover and flipped. Another cloud of dust rose from the sky that sent both Inma and Jack into a coughing fit. Neither of them could breath for that moment and they both watched as the dust dissipated into the air. With the candle bringing light into the room, Inma continued to turn the pages. Her eyes varying from concentrated to confusion as she tried to read the text. Jack looked on as well but the symbols was as foreign to him as ever.

"What does it say?" Jack asked as he tried to decipher the strange symbols and words. They were something straight out of a fairy tale.

"It's the language of the storm-giants. The text is a little bit old but still legible. I think it's an encyclopedia or ancient text." Inma replied as she continued to flip. She saw various pages filled with creatures never seen before. Those creatures looked like they were out of this world. She showed Jack the image.

"Do you know what this is?" Inma asked as she pointed the image out to jack. Jack saw a winged monster with a rounded beak and a massive wingspan. He pondered on the image for a while. As he rubbed his chin, the gears in his head turned.

"It looks like a goose." Jack replied as he looked back at Inma. Her confusion was as visible as the stars in the sky.

"A goose?" What's that?" Inma asked and Jack felt another weight come over his shoulders.

This girl doesn't know what a goose is? Jack thought as he prepared his questions.

"Inma, do you know what a cow is?" Jack asked as he placed his hands together. Inma smiled with confidence.

"Of course I do! It's uh...it's uhhh…" She slumped her shoulders and lowered her head, "No I don't." Jack wondered why she wouldn't know of such basic animals.

"Is there a reason why you don't know any of these things? They're pretty basic." Jack asked as he looked at the image in the book. Inma began to blush with embarrassment.

"I've never actually seen a cow or a goose." Inma muttered while red in the face. Her rosy red cheeks began to appear redder by the second.

"Never seen a-" Jack couldn't believe what he was hearing. How could a girl like her have never heard of a goose or a cow. He placed both hands on his hips and smiled.

"I guess I'll have to show them to you then." Jack said with pride. Inma's eyebrow raised up in a perplexed state.

"What do you mean?" Inma asked as she continued to look through the pages in the book.

"Hello…." Jack raised his finger and pointed to himself, "I'm a human remember. We have those animals down there. You know, Below the clouds." Now Inma was really confused.

"Below...the clouds?" If there was any more distraught and puzzled child, then Inma was the prime example.

"What you didn't think that the land of the giants was all there was did you?" Jack pressed on and Inma became quiet.

"I never actually considered that there was something below the clouds. I thought that if I fell off the edge by some weird accident then that'd be it." She raised her fist to the air and then made a falling noise as it fell onto the bed below "Kablam!"

Now Jack was the one confused. He took a few steps forward and pointed towards her.

"It's not polite to point Little man." Inma said with a smile. Jack continued his point.

"Well Inma, I promise you that if we can ever get you..uhh...down to size, then I promise to take you to the land below the clouds." Jack said with a cheerful grin, "So long as they don't try to kill me." Jack whispered the last part under his breath.

"Well that's good to hear. Now I just gotta figure out how to shrink myself, but that'll never happen." Inma answered back with a giggle. Night time began to fall and Jack yawned.

"Get ready for bed." Inma told jack as she continued to flip through the pages in the book. She noticed some of the text in the later half of the book marked out. Some of the words were doodled on, scratched, and other pages completely removed.

The nerve of some people. Inma thought as she frowned. She continued to flip the pages until she noticed a segment titled, "Creatures and Monsters". This segment peaked inma's curiousity and she flipped to the first page. She saw the same creature as she did before but with a new title above it.

GOLDEN GOOSE, the title read above the creature. That was a strange thought to Inma. Why would a goose be golden. It wouldn't be able to fly being that heavy. She flipped to the page after it and saw an image that resembled a map. It appeared to cover a large set of land and had the goose image scribbled at one point.

That must be where the goose is. Inma thought as her curiosity grew more and more. She flipped the pages more and more until she found one page that a larger folded piece of paper in it. As each second passed, she unfolded the map until the entire map covered her bed. It was a massive archive and guideline of how to traverse the land of the giant. Inma hadn't considered that something like this existed and the thought thrilled her to the bone. Over to the far right corner, she saw the goose in a place near a cave. Inma noticed various other creatures as well but didn't pay them any mind at that moment. She'd study them soon enough. Inma heard Jack speak as he prepared himself for bed.

"Did you find anything?" Jack asked as he got in his miniature bed. Inma smiled with an unmaintainable excitement.

"Yeah Little Man, I did indeed. I'll let you know in the morning. Good night!" Inma replied as she closed the book and map as well. She blew out the oil lamp and prepared herself for the adventure of a lifetime in the weeks to come.