Chapter 12 - Adventures in the North 09.

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Jon Snow POV
North Kingdom, Somewhere in WolfWoods, 289 A.C., 6 days later.
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It had been 6 days since Jon encountered the giants and began forming bonds with the men, some of whom were larger than the boy himself.
The giant with a scar over his eye had black hair, a beard that covered his entire chin, and was quite large; his eye was black, showing a fierce gaze with his lone eye. He stood at 4 meters, despite appearing quite lean. No one in the North could defeat him in a one-on-one battle. He introduced himself as Wallyk.
Like Wallyk, Wuual was his companion and the mother of the boys. She had eyes and hair as black as Wallyk's. Her gaze was fierce, with a warrior's aura, standing at 3.5 meters with incredibly long hair braided.
Their children introduced themselves as Carruuyi and Tuuuxy, both boys not older than Jon, with features sculpted by their two parents, having hair and eyes as black as the night. Each was 2 meters tall, which made Jon cautious not to let his childish side take over, knowing he could get hurt with almost double the size or weight that other children represented. He was also more focused on his own concerns and had no time to be a child now.
Kypyl and Huyys were another couple. Despite not having children, both told Jon they had been together for 5 years but never managed to have children. It seems that giants' fertility is much worse compared to humans. Kypyl had blond hair with a small beard on his chin and green eyes; his emerald gaze intimidated anyone at 4 meters. Despite looking primitive and lean, Huyys was a quite tall giant, at 3.8 meters, with hair kissed by fire and blue eyes. This made the boy frown when he remembered Lady Catelyn. Jon's mood changed when the giantess said she defeated her mate in a fight and stole him, as humans do beyond the Wall.
As for Seryna, the teenage giantess, she was 14 namedays old, with loose black hair and bright blue eyes in a 2.2-meter body.
The giants were very cautious with Jon and his animals while the boy was cleaning that forge in the early days. Jon, with his wolves, and the giants formed two kinds of groups in this place. It was only on the third day that they started talking for real. Then, they began telling stories to each other around the campfires they made at night while eating. The giants became more comfortable with the boy.
When the 2-meter children wanted to play with Jon, he had to step back, which was easy to do. However, Seryna was another matter. At first, she was cautious with Jon. After they started talking, she became curious and always followed him to the forge with curiosity. After that, to Jon's dismay, this curiosity turned into obsession.
In the past few days, Seryna followed Jon and became bold, hugging the poor boy like a straw doll. This made Jon even annoyed and fight back when these annoyances became unbearable. The adult giants laughed at it, and his wolves just looked at him with paws over their eyes and a lost whine, as none of this posed a threat to the boy's life. Caraxes kept complaining to the giantess but was ignored by the same.
But, to Jon's surprise, despite the size of the teenage giantess, when Jon raised his angry voice, Seryna got scared and started crying and running away. This made Jon feel a bit guilty. He had to console, a strange sight: a human child patting the back of a female giant almost twice his size, crying in a corner of that place.

Apart from his interactions with Seryna, Jon discovered that the giants seemed to follow him and even expected to receive orders from him. This surprised him. He had only intended to use the forge and let them live in peace here once their business was done, but they made their intentions clear after learning more about the blessed little human.

It was from there that Jon found out they had come from beyond the Wall with a raft made of trees. After successfully passing the northern part of Bear Island without alerting anyone from the Night's Watch, they reached the northeastern mountains, where the clans live, and descended south during the night, managing to arrive in WolfWoods without alerting anyone, by some miracle. Someone surely saw the trail, but no one must have believed it was about footprints many times larger than those of humans.

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