<div class="quoteheader"><div class="topslice_quote"><a href="https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=96676.msg4222720#msg4222720">Quote from: Narianna on 05-02-2011, 09:20:51</a></div></div><blockquote class="bbc_standard_quote"><div align="center">Aleka Softlystepping (http://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=96661.msg4199655#msg4199655)</div><br/>As soon as Aleka reaches the other side of the portal, she hears a loud boom, followed shortly thereafter by another boom, then another. The ground around her begins to rattle with each boom, pebbles vibrating on the ground. Aleka looks around her and sees, tromping through the forest, a nine foot tall grey rock giant. His arms were huge and hung almost to the ground as he walked along, his head hung low. He didn’t seem to notice Aleka and was walking toward the lake to her right.<br/></blockquote><div class="quotefooter"><div class="botslice_quote"></div></div><br/><br/>Gulping almost audibly Aleka took a few hesitant steps backward, never looking away from the creature. The giant was like nothing she had seen or heard of before and she did not want to make it angry. Her tail twitching in fear she kept inching slowly back until her back hit a tree. The sound of her staff conecting with the wood of the tree made her wince but hoped the animated stone could not hear it, or would not care.