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Fantasy The Visitor to Sarcago (GodlyDnD and CoolRoleplayer)

"Hold on." Ventemal motioned. He turned against to that Colgom, the man who had spoken of that sight of the giant that came into Sarcago. "What happened then? Did that giant just leave, on his own, while the one he had pursued was still in there?"

Colgom answered, "At that time we did not understand that giant was after just the one man. A giant waiting out there was a threat we understood to all of us, if any of us were to leave going out that way, the one way any of us went in or went out. But we saw through the small windows that armed men, the ones serving to protect order in Sarcago, approached that giant, and the giant saw they would come to attack, and he then hurried away, going the other way, which led to the road to the gate of Sarcago. The giant might have gotten away, but none of us there saw. Perhaps other armed guards might have slain him. Or he yet did some further damage before escaping."

Ventemal said, "Then, with knowing that, we should go toward the gate, and maybe learn anything further from someone nearer to there who would have seen more that we could be told. Thank you for your time, both of you, to have us learn about that. Come, Colin, we will go there now."
 
The boy was silent as the conversation was unfolding, even though he was paying attention at what was being said. He still didn't really get what was going on, especially the parts about the guards, and small windows, and armed men, and, basically everything now that he has come to think about it. Soon Ventemal told him 'come on', and, with a small nod, he did just that, and started to follow Ventemal. If he understood at least this small part right, they were going towards the gate.. whatever that is.. gate of what anyway?

And while they were walking, perhaps now was the time to ask the one thing he wanted to know since Ventemal came with this story.
"How big is that giant?" He asked, glancing up at Ventemal briefly, before simply looking around as he was before. He still wanted to know where he was going, after all.
 
Ventemal looked at that boy, Colin. "You don't know about giants? You really must be from another world, and one where your people are, but no giants at all. That is strange. They are people too, just being bigger. Because they live away from us they don't feel like they have to do anything to get along with us. They have difference in sizes, like there are different heights among us. The average for giants is about twice the average height among us, and their width would be about twice, as well. Giants are stronger. The shorter giants are more stalky and twice the height of the shortest among us, the very shortest of them is like what a dwarf is for us, very slightly greater in height than the tallest possible among us. The tallest of them is close in height to that of the extragiants and the supergiants. The one that came here I will assume was close to being average for a giant. Look, there are some people gathered near the gate. We will go to them and ask questions right away, that is, unless you want to ask me anything else first, right away."
 
If he knew about giants? Nop. Not a word. He had seen none while he was traveling across the forest, at least, nothing seemed to resemble that description anyway. And then Ventemal started elaborating was his world, where everyone was roughly at the same size, was strange. What? Were giants here so common? Nevertheless, Ventemal said the giant is twice their average size.. good. That didn't look like a lot. Though, by employing some quick math and physics, a giant twice their size, would be four times stronger, and weight eight times as more.

Apparently, there were also shorter giants.. and.. supergiants? He let out a small confused sigh, not really sure if he wanted to know more or not about that world. What other strangeness would be there, that Ventemal isn't telling him, because for him that's so normal?

"Sure..." He just shrugged, as he spoke this.
He then saw the people gathered near the gate, and just followed Ventemal. He then shook his head at Ventemal's last question.
"I don't think I have any questions.." Well, he had many, he just had no clue where to start, or how to ask them.
 
Ventemal and the boy Colin together came to these several people near that same place where Colin had entered this humble city of Sarcago, where that unused road extended from. Ventemal said as they approached, "We heard disturbing news of an entry from here. Do any among you know anything about that?"

There were four men and two women who were standing there where they had been speaking together. One man, appearing older than the others, said in response to Ventemal when he saw him, "Yesterday afternoon a giant was chasing after one man who for some reason that still is in question went out along that road to where he would have such an encounter. That man had a good lead but the giant made greater strides and looked like he was going to catch up. The man ran from here through our city, and the giant entered, and went after him. That was all that was seen from here, until this morning. The giant was led out, constrained in strong binding, with a team of guards past this gate and far along the road. A long while later the team of guards returned, without the giant in sight, and they went on into the city in thar direction from which they came. We are discussing ideas held about what was done with that giant. The giant was kept here overnight, and brought out there? What for?"
 
Ventemal responded, "If they wanted to kill that giant once he was caught, I think they could have managed to do so. They must have concluded that it was not entirely the fault of the giant alone to come running in here after that man, and that the man had provoked the giant, so the best approach would be to take that giant toward where his home would be, far from this city, on his agreement to go there on his release and to not return here. That is my best guess. Those appointed to uphold law in our city do not seek death of any unfairly, so they must apply that to the giant that came here as well, if it was not all the giant's fault."

That older man who had just spoken asked, "What would have been done that provoked the giant to run after that man?"

Ventemal said, "We do not know that either, that the giant was provoked is just the sensible explanation for what happened. We could only make wild guesses for anything further to explain it."
 
He recognized the place where they were going: the same one that he had got in, at the city, in the first place. He didn't talk anything, and simply listened to the adults talking among themselves. Something about a giant pursuing someone, getting in the city, and then being driven out guards, who had done something to the giant. And then something about why exactly the guards decided to do what they did, or, at least, guesses on that.

Anyway, if the giant was provoked, and if was no longer there, and if no one was hurt, it seemed like there was nothing left for Colin to do, right? Everyone was safe, and it looked like the matter was resolved. At least, that was what he thought anyway.
"Where are we going now? Are we going back home?" He looked up at Ventemal as he asked the question.
"Or we going elsewhere?" Perhaps pursuing the giant, or towards the forest, or somewhere else that Ventemal had in mind.

Either way, it didn't matter that much for Colin, where they would go.
 
Ventemal said, "I can't tell from this anything certain about what those guards did with that giant away from this city, who they led out bound up. Did they unbind him at all? If they did they had to trust his word that he would leave going the other way and not ever return. Maybe the giant would do so, but that could not be certain. On the other hand, they may have left the giant stuck somewhere still bound, to leave him exposed to viscious predators. That would be really inhumane, but we do not know what the guards would or wouldn't do. I know you might want to go back to the home I am sharing. But maybe we should not go right away, what if we are here a little longer and something happens? We might watch out and we might find out more, if the giant comes this way or there is still any news from which we would know more about what happened."

Ventemal was looking out along that mostly unused road that Colin had come along to enter here at Sarcago. It seemed like he was expecting something.
 
After a few moments of looking that way, Ventemal said, "I see dark birds flying over there, very far from here. Do you see? I wish we knew what the guards did with that giant. They should not have left him trapped to die. Maybe we should go that far to check. You have abilities to deal with anything along the way, right, Colin?" He looked to the boy, with a hope for some response.
 
"So, we can go along this road out, with your control of things if there is any confrontation, we will find out what was done with that giant!" Ventemal indicated for the boy to go with him, and went out that gate.
 
Ventemal was still nervous, and it showed, when he went out that gate from the walled defense of Sarcago, it would be where the wild things are. The few people nearer to the gate, within the city, showed shock at seeing this, their jaws dropping open. But it would be alright, wouldn't it, with Ventemal having Colin with him...
 
Ventemal began to speak again, and, all Colin did was to listen. Something about leaving the giant somewhere, while tied down? Something about that being inhumane? Was the man concerned with the giant? Colin was under the impression that they were evil or something on the sort. Nevertheless, he felt it was better not to inquire anything for now and be quiet, while Ventemal seemed to be analyzing where to go next.

Then, something about dark birds,m and again about the giant being trapped, and asking if Colin had the ability to deal with things.
The boy quickly nodded his head, yes. He thought he did, anyway. How hard could it be?!

"I thought giants are evil?" He asked the man, looking upwards, as Ventemal kept saying that he wished to know what happened with the giant, and further reiterated concern about the giant's well being.

Nevertheless, the boy followed the man, until they arrived at the gate, and while Ventemal was shocked, Colin had no idea what to expect, so, he didn't know if anything was different or not.
"What?" He asked, looking up at the man again, wanting to know what was going on.
 
Ventemal responded, "I do not know if the giants are all evil, or not. Very likely some are. What I do know, which I guess I had said to you, is that giants would be dangerous, they all are, as the extragiants and the supergiants would be. They don't think the rest of the people can get along with them, and that is probably right, and they will respond with aggression if any other people come up to them to provoke them. They just live apart from regular sized people, usually at good distances away, but this one that came would have been close by already. I do not think that the giant responding to that one man who came daringly to provoke him did anything for which he should be left to die, if that was what was done to him. Those guards came back soon without him after taking him bound out from the city, and I am suspicious that they did so. Even a bound giant cannot keep away the predatory animals in this wilderness. If we find him bound and are able to help, freeing him to go on, away from the city, I think we should."

This stretch of the old road passed through heavy growth of trees on either side, obscuring what might be living in the wilderness further from the road. Ventemal was very glad Colin was coming along. Only he might keep dangerous creatures away.
 
The dark birds that had been spotted flying over the road were still distant. Closer than that there was an area where young trees were seen to be pushed aside, one way or the other way, making a space that came from deeper in the woods to that side, on the left on the way out from that city of Sarcago, to the road itself. It clearly indicated something large coming onto the the road from there. It had not been that way earlier, from what Colin would remember. Ventemal was thinking that man who had done something to provoke the giant must have known where to find him, and get away and to the city gate before the giant had come out onto the road once realizing what had been done, whatever it was, to go after that man, giving that man the chance to escape from him. On the road right at that place small branches that had been broken off were scattered around.

The giant must have been taken while captive by the guards further along the road instead of where he might return to where he was from.
 
As they were out from Sarcago and still going on this really unused road, that had been that way for years, hundreds of years, Ventemal grew aware that Colin stayed quiet. He was quiet at many times. But when Colin was alone with him the boy would at times be asking questions. It was unusual to not hear him still, now away from others, who would never step out beyond the wall of the city.
 
Ventemal thought of this quiet, and he grew suspicious. The boy was not telling him something. Something that would be important, that he wasn't being told! How could he find out what it is?
 
He heard the man speaking, not really speaking that much himself. Apparently, some of the giants were evil, but perhaps not all of them. And then something about how dangerous they are, even though they're not evil, just because something about they didn't get along? He was not exactly sure what all of that meant, he also didn't think it made that much of a sense anyway. It looked like Ventemal had a wishful thinking that, this giant, was actually not evil, though perhaps dangerous, and the guards might have overreacted or something like that. He had no clue, because, he was new there, and if there was one thing Colin didn't have, was information about all of that. Oh wow, extradiants? supergiants? What are them? This was looking more and more interesting.

They were walking.. The boy had no clue what would be their destination, but they were walking.. there was clearly a road, so, it had to lead somewhere, right? It only made sense, of course. As Ventemal grew quiet and suspicious, the boy also was quiet, completely unaware that the man was finding the situation suspicious. Eventually, he decided to break the silence, and he was going to ask, because, no reason.
"Hm... Supergiants?" Well, actually, it was the second time the man had mentioned them. It didn't harm in asking, even though there was zero reason to.

It was also weird. He had no idea if there was an actual destination, or if they were really wandering, and searching for the giant, or something. What was Ventemal up to? If the boy cared, he might actually ask, or maybe he will out of curiosity, but, for the moment, he just kept going.
 
"Supergiants? I was surprised that you didn't even have giants around that you didn't even hear of, where you came from. Both extragiants and supergiants are as big as the tallest of the giants, they are more than twice the height of almost any of us who are full grown. Extragiants are strong too, a bit more cultured but not at all to be trusted. Supergiants are about the same height as them, but much stronger. They manage lifting boulders and tossing them. We best avoid any of them. I am sure though none of those are near this road. But wild creatures are, stay alert."

They went on a little, and Ventemal said, "See where the birds have been flying overhead? That's a sign that some being or creature is expected to die soon. That is where we should go. If it is that giant, we cannot just leave him to be bound that way. We must have him promise to leave going the other way to not come near our city, Sarcago."

It was a long walk, but it could be seen that it was not going to be too much further.
 
It was not at all much further when both could see the dark birds flying above, and that there was a widening ditch along the side of the road, a little ahead of them, it also seemed to go deeper further on. Where the giant might have been disposed of seem to become clearer. Ventemal slightly hastened his pace.
 
So many difference between them. Some are taller, some are same height but stronger, some are .. more cultured? A bit more cultured? What was that supposed to mean? Were these.. 'creatures'.. these giant creatures that is, even intelligent? Is that what Ventemal was implying with 'cultured'? Perhaps some of them were intelligent, and others weren't? The boy had so many questions, and so little willingness to ask them.

Stay alert, Ventemal said, which made the boy nod, and yawn. Yep, he was not alert at all, any person would conclude that. The boy was soon directed to look upwards, at the many birds, dark birds, and again he nodded somewhat, but he was paying less attention, perhaps due to the long walk.

The boy then felt Ventenal hastening his pace, just at the moment that he wanted to walk a little bit slower.
"Are we there yet?" Indeed, he was still a little boy, wanting to arrive at whatever destination they were going.
"How much further?" And, there was the risk that these kind of questions would become more and more often.
 
Ventemal said to Colin, "Look ahead. This ditch on the side grows deeper and wider further on, where the birds are flying high over. Something there attracts them, and I think it would be the bound giant that was seen being taken out from Sarcago at the gate. You had been this way already, I knew I could go check safely with you. We might find that giant, and tell him he must go further from Sarcago and we will free him from the binding with his promised agreement to do so."

Ventemal kept looking at the ditch carefully as they went along it. It continued a long stretch, and when they were below the high flying birds, Ventemal suddenly pointed to something just seen, it was a bit of clothing someone had on, someone really big. Ventemal led the boy over to the ditch, wide and deep, there. And there lying on his side with arms in binding behind him was that giant, who was indeed nearly of twice the height of Ventemal had he been standing.
 
Ventemal said, "This is him, he was bound as those witnesses said, and the guards did just bring him here and pushed him into this ditch while bound so that he could not get out from there. If we do not leave him to die, we would have to unbind him. Come Colin, you can be of help."

Ventemal went on to where he was at the edge of the ditch where he could see the giant's face. The giant was yet very alert." That one shouted, "Why are you here??"

Ventemal said, "We heard news that you came into our city, and heard further news that guards had taken you out from the city with you bound, and they came back soon without you. We both were concerned that they took you out to leave you to die. That did not seem right to us. What did you do?"

"I was not doing anything, I was just sitting at my home eating the fixin's from my bowl. Then a stinky cone was tossed into it. That rendered it unfit to still eat. I saw it and quickly realized there are no trees bearing stinky cones anywhere by there. It did not just fall, it was deliberately tossed. So I went out toward the road, seeing evidence that one had approached me. And then I saw one of you shrunken people, running along the road to reach that gate. So I ran after him, but he went in through the gate, and I would have to go through it to catch that bastard. I almost did, after running far into that city. But he ran into a house of business there, and I could not easily get on there myself, and another there was attacking me with a sharp instrument. So I remained outside to see when that one, who I knew I could recognize, would come out. But those guards came, and with enough of them armed with weapons to cause me real harm they managed to bind me. I was taken to a place where I was questioned at length. Officers after all that took me out from that city to take me here and to dump me in this ditch that I cannot get out from. Do you say I did anything to be left in here?"

Ventemal said, "You entered our city, that is for us and not others such as you. I could help you out, but I will need to know you will never go back there. Forget about that bastard. Just stay much further away from the city than where you were."

"I would stay away much further from there. But I have my things there which I would need to carry away."
 
Ventemal said, "We cannot agree to having you go back in that direction to get anything you leave there, you must agree to go on in the direction away from our city, that we would do what we work to unbind you. We both may have a way for your items where they would be to then be transported to where you go further on." Ventemal turned to look at Colin. "What do you say? This can be done, right?"
 

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