A Giant's Friend by M.D. Grimm

Author:M.D. Grimm
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: mountain, war, fantasy giants, friends lovers
Publisher: M.D. Grimm

When Nadya came to check on them, Jeth left Kodie in her care and walked outside. His father. This had to be the gods’ doing. What was their reason for this strange reunion? Jeth looked at the sky, seeing the storm clouds in the distance. With a scowl he turned on his heel and climbed higher up the peak looming over the caves. He used his nose and his gut and went higher, entering deadlier terrain and harsher cold. No giant would want to be easily found by humans. He also suspected his father wanted to challenge his child, to see if Jeth was more giant than human. Jeth honestly didn’t know himself. On the battlefield and around most humans he felt utterly giant, a beast and predator. Yet with Kodie, and his mother when she was alive, he found he could be tender and gentle. Such things were foreign to giants. They were known to be as merciless as the mountains they called home.

The wind slapped his face, the snow sticking to his hair. He gritted his teeth and climbed a bit higher before looking around, hunting. The wind grew more violent, snatching at his cloak and hair, whipping them around his head. He cautiously stepped on flatter lands, boots sinking deeply into the powdered snow. He couldn’t hear much over the howling wind. Yet he sensed he wasn’t alone. He took a deep breath, the scent of another tickling his nose. The cold would have cut down a human in only a short moment. For himself, it was annoying, not life-threatening.

“You have your mother’s eyes.”

Jeth jerked. Slowly turning, he got his first look at his father. Jethron. It shook him then, as it never did before, that he was named after his father. Kodie didn’t even know.

Towering over him, a few feet away, the creature that was his father was more giant than human—from the brutish shape of his face, the even hairier body barely covered with swatches of cloth, and the cold eyes. Onyx eyes he gave his son.

“I have your eyes.”

“You have my color and her shape. You’re also smaller than I would have thought. She was a large woman.”

Jeth wasn’t that much shorter than his father who, he hazard a guess, was around ten feet. The giant crouched, and Jeth knew his father wasn’t full giant, either. Mountain giants could reach about fifteen feet and ice giants were rumored to reach twenty.

“Why did you save him?” Jeth asked, knowing his father would understand who he meant.

Jethron considered him. He looked at the path Jeth climbed and nodded as if in approval. He turned back. “He thought I was you. I smelled him dying and grew curious. I’ve never smelled human death so close to my hunting trail. He said your name. I knew you to be mine. I spared him for your sake.”

“Why?”

Jethron cocked his head to one side. “You’re my child.”

“Where was your concern when I was a child, and my mother persecuted because of you?”

Jethron’s expression darkened.

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