n, but that confusion lasted only a moment.

With the new standing on just some random scale

provided adding to the faint glow emanating from the frost of the buried horror Jared’s workers
d to the darkness enough to see his surroundings clearly. He had begun to unearth, but right on
top of one of its eyes.
wasn’t standing on the stony floor of a hole in the earth at Eric stumbled as the gruesome
stood, though hard as stone, had a greenish, reflective sheen, eyelids rolled apart, pulling his feet in
middle. It wasn’t stone at all, he realized, but the glossy, opposite directions, and that’s when
rably huge thing buried in the earth’s crust. Jared made his move. As Eric lost his
balance, the frost giant sprang to its feet
and charged at him. Eric fired off a shot
over the giant’s head, and the report
shook the air like a thunderclap. A huge
chunk of the wall imploded and fell
in where the bullet hit it, but Jared was
unharmed. Running along the vast beast’s
slowly receding eyelid, Jared punched Eric
hard in the chest. Eric braced himself for
the blow, but it threw him backward into
the wall. Jared jumped across the wet chasm
between the separating eyelids and met Eric
as his body slid down the stone surface.
Only by ducking at the last second was
Eric able to avoid the crushing elbow thrust
Jared aimed at his head. Chips of stone flew
and rained down the back of his neck as
he crouched and leaped away from the wall
past Jared. He tried to aim and fire another
shot at the giant, but Jared kicked the barrel
just in time and sent the booming shot wild.
outed. “Wake the destroyer if you dare!” The tiniest The bullet flew up into the larger chamber,
shattering a dangling collection tray full of
feet through his boots, and Jared’s smile became a manic stones that had yet to be unloaded. Eric landed
akened it already?” on his shoulder, rolled and came to a stop as
t from the ground nearly knocked him off balance. He Jared turned toward him. The giant shook
split what he thought was a scale directly beneath his his head to clear the thunderous gunshots’
him, between his boots and to within inches of where pounding echoes. Eric aimed again and tried
ng foul and wet glistened beneath the crack, and Eric to stand, but as he did, the eyelid beneath him
snapped fully open, pulling solid ground out
He wasn’t standing on just some random scale of the from under him like a rug in a slapstick comedy.
begun to unearth, but right on top of one of its Jared lost his footing too, bellowing out a great
white yelp of frigid breath.
elids rolled apart, pulling his feet in opposite directions, The sticky, yellow-white mass Eric landed on
e. As Eric lost his balance, the frost giant sprang to was shot through with red veins larger than his
red off a shot over the giant’s head, and the report legs, and it was the most awful substance he’d ever
touched. It sucked at him like clinging mud and
uge chunk of the wall imploded and fell in where the smelled faintly of stagnant swamp water. Trying
Running along the vast beast’s slowly receding eyelid, hard not to vomit, he pulled himself upright and
Eric braced himself for the blow, but it threw him