[Grot]

Grot was amused with this human woman. Xando had been frightened of Grot as well when he first met her. However Xando had quickly gone from utterly terrified to actually attempting to exert some form of dominance over him. To be honest, her backbone had been amusing for the giant. She had even gone so far as to act playfully with him when he stroked his hair...and then she had run off on him. It was a lesson Grot would not soon forget. This female would likely make a far more docile pet then Xando...she seemed to terrified to even speak to him let alone try and bargin with him or try and run off in the middle of the night. Still, he wasn't foolish enough to think he wouldn't need to take more precautions, perhaps enlisting the services of a mystic would be in order this time around....if he could locate one. For now, Grot decided he would scare her a little more, perhaps to make her faint for easy transport. If she was unconcious she couldn't trouble him until later once he had decided whether or not to eat her, or keep her as a pet.

For a moment Grot looked out at the dark storm clouds beginning to swirl about him. It seemed the skies were reflecting the maelstrom that was about to be Aydyn's life, this storm would be massive.. Looking back at the capture woman, Grot bared his teeth in a quite discomforting smile before speaking. "Unfortunately for you, you crossed me while hungry, and your horse got away" the giant said with a cruel chuckle before bringing Aydyn up to his waiting mouth, ready to chomp down on the poor womans head. That is, until her felt her go limp in his hand. Grot chuckled again as he looked at the unconcious woman, quite pleased with how that had went before he calmly deposited her in the large , person sized pocket he had sewn into his shirt initially for transporting Xando. Picking up the saddlebags and depositing them next to his captive in his pocket the giant headed off to the east. With the wind beginning to howl now, and the first flakes of snow falling Grot plodded off towards the hills and mountains of the Lauryl province far to the east. It wasn't long before the storm began to take off into it's full elemental fury as the giant found himself walking through a virtual wall of driving snow that served to quickly cover his tracks. Despite his size and his being used to such weather even Grot had to give pause to the fury of this storm and after but a few candlemarks of the giant bounding through the Lauryl countryside the giant was forced to find shelter.

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When Aydyn awoke, she would find herself still bundled inside the giants shirt, however it was no longer being worn. The shirt, made of roughly sewn together animal furs, had been placed against the back wall of a small cave. A fair sized fire currently burned brightly in the center of the cave warming the entire cave. The entrance to the cave was was blocked by the enormous form of the giant that had taken her away, what he hadn't blocked had for the most part been filled in with snow, except for where the hot smoke from the fire escaped. Despite the sound of the wind howling behind the shirtless giant, it would appear as if Grot was asleep, the contents of her saddlebags spilled out carefully on the floor in front of him. Just what the hell was this giant up to anyway?