“Nay, it was not I will was attacking of you,” Ingvar admitted with a slight stammer or stutter. The voice was too deep. The volume, were it not painfully obvious that it was a voice deliberately hushed, could have been, but was not, far too loud. The face from which the words came was too far away, as, indeed, so too was the body.
Nay, the body was too close. And yet, so too was it also too far. Because the body, his and the till-recently-unconscious traveler’s, were touching; the halfling’s body was stood not on hard earth, but upon malleable flesh and bone and muscle. It was upon a great hand. And that great hand was attached to a great arm, and that great arm was attached to a great chest, and that great chest had attached to it great shoulders, and from those great shoulders came a great neck, and that neck had atop it a great head and hair and beard and staring eyes, and that great body a great beating heart and soft soul– though the body looked quite weathered and unfriendly, this body of the giant Ingvar.
He would have scrambled to kneel and put the human– wait, not human. Something else, then? Goddess, he was never good at distinguishing the little folk, for no matter what sort they were he inadvertently frightened them as his reputation and appearance proceeded him, and how was a giant meant to learn what different sorts of people looked like if his only interaction with any of them was a shriek and a fleeing– back upon the ground. But he did not. For the little fellow was standing now, and the last thing the giant wanted to do was move and risk him falling and being harmed, or, worse…!!
Had Magnolion not been in such a rush to get up, perhaps he would have realized where he was. Perhaps he would have noticed the ground below his feet was much softer than it should be. It was only when he hears a voice that his situation come rushing to him like a current in a river. His aventurine eyes are blown wide with a mix of awe and horror. A giant. A true, real giant. Magnolion’s legs feel like jelly under him and he falls to his knees, not baring to look down and see just how high above the ground he is.
“C-Can you please put me-- please put me down.” Magnolion managed to squeak out, hopefully loud enough to be heard by the towering man holding him like a pebble in the palm of his hand. “Slowly-- please put me down slowly.”