by Joe Logue

Created on: May 10, 2009

The Misplaced Giant

The magnificent creature banked his head allowing her gentle fingers to caress his coarse skin. The pale moonlight was reflected in his left eye whilst the light of the dying campfire was reflected in the right. Although he could not speak; she knew he was thanking her for the times they had spent together.

For a giant, the size of a tenement and likewise constructed of stone, he was as gentle as a child.

She had been visiting him for quite some time but had never stayed out as late as she had tonight. There would be a few stern words awaiting her upon her return home but for now he was her only concern

She thought back to the beginning of that summer, when they had first met, he would hold out his index finger as a diving board and she would run and cannon ball from the tip. During their play she had come to notice that he was very dirty with moss growing over him, much like the gutters on her uncle's farm and his ears, oh my his ears, were clogged with dirt and moss which homed an assortment of colourful bugs. She resolved that the next day , when she came to visit, she would bring along a spade and excavate his enormous ear holes.

The next day she dug away pulling, mud, moss and a very grateful imp, who had been trapped for a while, from within his ear. The imp, who had introduced himself as Rampilastion, greeted her with a smile and agreed to grant her one wish. This wish was not to be selfish nor would it lend itself to wealth, it had to be utterly selfless and would only last the duration of the summer.

The imp had also told her how he had heard the stone giant's every thought whilst being trapped within his head. He told her that the giant loved her very much, that his name was Finn, he was 300 years old and came from a far off land named Causeway from which he was on holiday and was due to return at the end of summer.

During her conversation with the imp she became concerned with Finn's fate and so wished him to be visible to her eyes only ,so that he may be safe from the curiosity of man which would find him taken, perhaps put on display or even worse; experimented on.

Her wish was promptly granted before Rampilastion gave her another courteous bow and bounded off into the forest much like a bunny rabbit - a green bunny rabbit with no fur and large blue eyes.

The summer had been spent with Finn teacher her tricks like how to make shadow puppets, because of him she could now make a bunny rabbit, a pigeon and a very fat looking pig. Whilst

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