The Giant and the Princess (5/10)

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(^This scene is from the last chapter, but whatever, posting it here anyway)

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(^This scene is from the last chapter, but whatever, posting it here anyway)

Ajax was giddy with excitement when he woke up the following morning. His heart fluttered every time he thought about the little princess, so cute and small. He wanted to make her happy today. He took extra time to bathe in a mountain stream and scrubbed every inch of his skin with soap so that he would smell nice. He clipped his nails so they weren't so cracked and unsightly. He suited up in his finest garb, a leather vest lined with rabbit fur and his cleanest pair of pants. He examined his face in a mirror and tried to fix any imperfections he could. He trimmed his beard so it wasn't so scraggly, brushed out the knots in his hair, and tied his long hair back into a neat ponytail. After some thought, he stuck a handkerchief in his pocket, so he could clean up any blood that got on his clothes. Once he was confident in his dashing appearance, he headed out.

His mother stopped him on his way to the door. "Ajax! Wow, you're looking handsome! What's the special occasion?"

"Oh, it's nothing," Ajax lied, but his face heated up and betrayed him.

She grinned and raised an eyebrow. "Did you meet a nice giantess during one of your expeditions?"

"S-something like that," Ajax stuttered, rubbing the back of his neck. He didn't want to admit the truth.

His mother pecked him on the cheek. "Good luck, sweetie! Knock 'em dead!" she giggled.

"Thanks, Mom." Ajax excused himself with a small wave as he backed out the door. He hurried down the mountain and into the forest. Once he was out of sight, he let out a breath of relief. Truthfully, he wasn't sure how his parents would respond if they found out he was falling in love with a human. All he knew was that he didn't want them to know. Plus, he realized the human wouldn't be safe around his relatives. With some discomfort, he realized she really wasn't even safe around him, if he got gluttonous enough and couldn't restrain himself.

With that distressing thought digging into his brain, he hastened to find food to fill his belly before he ran into Iris. He didn't want to risk being excessively hungry around her, lest he give in to temptation. Fortunately, he caught a handful of deer in one of his traps that he happily swallowed whole, so that he wouldn't get blood everywhere and mess up his well-groomed appearance. He snapped the antlers off the males, so they wouldn't prick his throat on the way down. With his hunger sated, he headed over to the castle.

As he camped out in the woods near the castle town, waiting for the princess to emerge, he spotted a modest group of travelers hiking in the same direction. He was sorely tempted to snatch them up and eat them. They would be such easy prey, with how oblivious they were, and so tasty too. However, he considered how Princess Iris would feel about him eating humans, and mercifully restrained himself. He wasn't especially hungry at the moment anyways, with the herd of live deer thrashing in his gut.

He wasn't sure how to feel about ingesting humans. He'd done so for his entire life, so it was difficult for him to stop seeing them as sustenance. The act didn't seem wrong when eating them felt so right, for no other food satisfied in quite the same way. Every giant knew that they existed to eat humans: It was the reason they were created by their god in the first place, to control the human population as natural predators. To deny himself that pleasure was to deny his true purpose.

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