“Help! Help! Oh, please, isn’t there anyone who can help me?”
The calls for help were so quiet that, at first, Aralisse almost didn’t go to check.
‘It’s just some children playing games, maybe,’ she thought to herself, coming up to a large branch that hung over the road she was traveling on. To anyone else, the tree limb would have sailed harmlessly overhead as they walked beneath, but for Aralisse? She had to duck underneath, and even then, the top of her head grazed the 13-foot limb before she continued on her way, her lips pursed in mild concern.
The giantess was distracted.
The cries for help weren’t going away, not like she would have expected for a game. And, come to think of it, she hadn’t passed a village in some time, and these woods certainly weren’t a good place for children to be playing amongst themselves. The wolves and beasts stayed far away from her, being the biggest thing in these woods, but the voice that called out was small, weak.
The giantess paused, despite herself. What if it wasn’t children playing? She didn’t know if she could just walk away, now that the thought had crossed her mind.