Ambloome’s mother was appealing what had caused her abdication
From the throne; with Page boy Zellit showing vital information,
In a diary. Now, since giant court was willing to admit
Any evidence, Lee-John the Viking offered some of it.

He’d gone back in time (per ‘Ambloome III’), once Ambloome had instructed
Him in amulet time travel, to confirm what was deducted
By young Zellit. As an earth man, he was small enough to slink
Into chambers unobserved, with Nonvor’s future on the brink.

He’d recorded harmless dialogue, which he knew had corresponded
To the photographs that had been used to say those two had bonded.
He made sure he wasn’t seen by Lester, Nonvor, nor the cook,
Who was hiding with her photo camera, just as keen to look.

So the judge was now convinced that Wondalyn had been rejected,
Then retained the grudge, and borrowed from the facts, which she projected
Onto Nonvor, in the hopes of gaining vengeance, but she failed.
She was later tried for perjury and other crimes and jailed.

Then Lee-John said that he wished that he’d not needed public screening
Of the family conversations. He was sorry for demeaning
Nonvor, Lester and Ambloome; but Ambloome said that she was pleased
For the memory of her husband’s voice, now that her pain had eased.

She was grateful that he’d helped to prove her mother hadn’t cheated
With her husband, now that Wondalyn’s revenge had been defeated.
She invited him to swimming in the palace pool. Her dive
Brought a wave of water near his boat, which made him feel alive.

In the meantime, Nonvor asked the Page boy to her chamber,
And inquired how he was so sure someone else had tried to frame her,
That he’d borrowed private property, belonging to the king,
With a view to scanning every page and checking everything.

‘There’s been so much scandal, true and false, all born of hurt and feeling.
If I told you how I knew for sure, you might just hit the ceiling,’
Zellit said, ‘I’ve been your page for years, and I could not accept
Your complicity in such a thing, though accusations crept.’

‘But you sought me out, convincing me, to come back for the ruling,
Which you brought about, heroically, with legal techniques, dueling
With a woman who had planned my downfall. You were every bit
Of the knights (who fight with swords and shields); though I’d gone off to knit.

You defended my lost honour, and you haven’t made a mention
Of a fee, for representing me, despite my regal pension.
Then you’ve cleared my son-in-law as well, exposing Wondalyn.
Can you tell me how to thank you, since I simply can’t begin’’

Then the Page boy, still in some things shy, which came with being youthful,
Found the chance, within her gratitude, to be a bit more truthful.
So he put his arms around the queen, and she did not resist.
Now at last she sensed his feelings, and responded, as they kissed.

They soon lay down in her bed, and though the boy was shyly muddling,
She knew everything to teach him how to make the most of cuddling,
With no premature experiments, that shouldn’t come too soon.
They’d be saved for later, if there came a time for honeymoon.

With their amulets, Lee-John and Ambloome went to Lee-John’s village,
Where a flood, which came from last days warnings caused a massive spillage.
Ambloome used her giant hands to rescue lots of people fast;
While her body held the waters back, until the danger passed.

There was little damaged in the town, and citizens were drying
By their fires that night, with gratitude that they’d been kept from dying;
Since they might have drowned, if Ambloome hadn’t pulled them from the flow.
They had never seen a flood like that before, and couldn’t know.

All the gardens near the coast were full of shrubs and flowers soaking;
And some people, who had lost their breath, had almost gone down choking.
Once she’d helped repair the dam, she met Lee-John’s young friend Braisyde;
And invited him to her world, where some party food was fried.

In the kingdom of the giants, Ambloome’s party celebration
Of her birthday went ahead as planned, with one more invitation.
Now Braisyde was on the guest list too, and found himself enthralled,
In the company of the girls, where giant friendships weren’t forestalled.

They were glad to meet another lad from earth, who wasn’t seeing
Ambloome (unlike Lester and Lee-John), they found themselves agreeing.
There was one, who caught his fancy, and her name was Jenyfer.
He was glad, when she was friendly, as he talked a while with her.

She reminded him of someone from his childhood dreams distinctly.
He recounted what he’d dreamt back then, expressing things succinctly:
He’d been ten years old, and dreamt he’d found a giant girl who played,
With her dolls house. Then he’d been her doll, and never felt afraid.

They’d enjoyed sweet summer friendship, until he had then awoken,
Wishing she’d been real: a secret dream of which he’d never spoken
For the last ten years; until this day (resulting from a flood)
Brought a flood of memories back, which fate had once nipped in the bud.

Lest she merely think that it had simply been coincidental,
He had further evidence, that he was more than sentimental:
In his dream, the girl was Jennifer, though Jenny named for short.
Now the giant’s party nametag had Braisyde’s attention caught.

Her pronunciation was the same, and her long hair was golden,
Like the Jenny of his long lost dream; a fact which would embolden
Him to ask if she was interested, and if his story meant
More than casual conversation’s way to pay a compliment.

Jenyfer explained that she’d been dating someone for a year now.
When she’d tried to change his darker habits, that one wouldn’t hear how
He could treat her with gentility; and so she’d come alone.
Ambloome’s party invitation for them both was never shown.

She had known that things weren’t right, but she’d of late begun despairing
Of the chance of meeting someone who was decent, kind and caring.
Then the story told by Braisyde had reminded her as well
Of a dream, she’d had while teenaged, which she then went on to tell.

Giant Jenyfer attended Ambloome’s party, never telling
Her unpleasant boyfriend it was on, since he’d been overselling
His aggressive side more recently. Just now she’d met a guest
Who resembled someone from a dream, which had become her quest.

In her dream, she’d wandered in the streets, and soon found herself picking
Lots of cards up, which were on the ground; and turned a corner, sticking
To the pavement, as she found more cards, and then a tiny lad,
Who’d been gathering up the cards as well. He gave her all he had.

As they met, they’d learned that each of them had casually regarded
Their discovery as chance to grab what someone had discarded.
Then they each were faced with only ending up with half a pack.
So the boy had given up his share, which she could not pay back.

He had been the height of those cards, but became her lasting standard
Of the way to treat a girl, since her dream boy had (back then) handed
All those cards to her. That’s how she knew her boyfriend wasn’t right.
She was sure Braisyde resembled her dream lad, from her hindsight.

She had pictured such a special boy concealed by four leaf clover
For so long; but now she had to tell her boyfriend things were over.
She was sure he’d not accept it. So she thought it might be wise
To seek help from Ambloome, since she had the troops to mobilize.

Ambloome gave Braisyde a dolls house in the palace, while her soldier
Went with Jenyfer to give her beau the bad news. She was bolder,
With protection such as this, and such great love for one she’d seen
In her dream of old, as he’d seen her in his, with proof to glean.

True to form her erstwhile boyfriend soon became a trifle surly,
Making threats, ‘You can’t just leave me. You’ll regret this treatment, Girlie!’
He was warned by Ambloome’s guardsman to retract his open threat.
This left Jenyfer convinced their dates were something to forget.

Though she knew her old beau’s loving thoughts would soon evolve to hating,
She was glad for opportunities to go out, double dating
With her friend Ambloome, and two small earthling partners, who had grown
Up as friends as well on earth. Such parallels were quickly known.

Ambloome had to stay on giant world, and grow to be more regal,
But then Jenyfer had always wanted for the sounds of seagull
And the rolling surf, and wished that she could sleep each night on sand
At a beach. Braisyde facilitated this in his own land.

He arranged for her to settle in an empty field in Norway,
Using Ambloome’s amulet for travel. Lee-John’s was the doorway,
For the other couple. Grateful Vikings built a great big shed
In the field for food she brought from home, so she’d be properly fed.

To protect the Viking village in the night from further flooding,
Or attacks, young Jenyfer would thus facilitate her budding
New romance with young Braisyde, by sleeping nights upon the shore,
As their beach defence. Braisyde enjoyed their evenings more and more.

Though Braisyde and Lee-John reveled in their girlfriends’ giant figures,
They had watched cartoons and seen the use of shrinking raygun triggers,
And discussed together how they’d feel if maybe once or twice,
They could marry and enjoy what otherwise was merely vice.

Both were Vikings, and had no way to initiate the changes.
Yet they soon used Lee-John’s antidote, to travel in the ranges
Of the time stream, so that they could see if anyone invented
Means of growth, also reduction, when their lives were long lamented.

They took Jenyfer and Ambloome to the giant kingdom’s future;
But no medicine would help them more than x-rays or a suture;
When it came to making sizes change. Perhaps they’d lost the bets,
When expecting they could reach some future help with amulets.

Then, instead of asking doctors, they found people specializing
In most radical of sciences, to do with such resizing.
Using Ambloome as their subject for the test, they’d radiate
Her with something, which was meant to make her size a varied state.

They had hoped that she could grow and shrink herself and clothes in theory.
Yet the testing, after treatment left the giant princess weary
Of the hopes, which never worked out. So they tested Jenyfer
With a radiation bath as well, but no chance would occur.

So the couples then returned, by amulet, to their own eras,
Where their clothing wouldn’t shrink, and neither would its giant wearers.
Lee-John stayed in Ambloome’s giant world, with her, while young Braisyde
Went with Jenyfer to Norway (earth), still pleased that they had tried.

Then as Jenyfer sat on the beach that day, again resuming
Her protective role, Braisyde was ever keen on giant grooming.
Then a heavy rain began to fall, and she said, ‘Would you like
Me to lie, to block potential flood, once more the human dyke’’

He was thankful, but the storm was merely scenic, with no danger.
As she longed to hug her man, she wished she could become a changer
Of her size. Then all at once, she found her body start to shrink,
With her clothing, and connected that she had to really think.

Once she concentrated hard enough, and exercised her will power,
She could shrink or grow by thinking it, and revel in the thrill shower
Of the lovely storm beside the sea. But now a nearby cave
Would be shelter from them both, and he could be the one to save.

So Braisyde led Jenyfer towards the sheltered rock formation,
Where the stood and watched the tempest. Then he gave an invitation
For a kiss (at equal size), which they enjoyed; and then they knew,
That the doors would really open, when they later said, ‘I do.’

For the moment, he would not propose. They’d revel in the courting.
Then Braisyde said, ‘Darling, maybe we should set about exporting
Your discovery to Ambloome, so she’ll have the chance to know,
That with proper mental discipline, she’ll also shrink and grow.’

So they used their amulet, and went to Ambloome’s palace, gladly,
And they told her their experiments had not turned out too badly.
With a bit of mental effort, Ambloome also thrilled her Fjord,
By diminishing, then checking that her size could be restored.

Back in Ambloome VI, the Sun Cult was defeated by the forces
Of the Sentinels of Daylight, who were actually resources,
Who in service to the Omni-Child, would serve as guard or screen,
To protect the world from take-over by ageless Constant-Teen.

Yet one remnant (of those awful times) attempted relocation,
With success, and then set up another evil operation,
Up on Falcon’s Hill, while all the rest of Constant-Teen’s old cult,
Were awaiting trial and punishment, quite sure of the result.

This escapee was Cabilo, who’d perfected a persuasive
Means of taking over people’s minds, with techniques quite invasive.
His hypnotic lens would take one back to some long lost desire,
By manipulating alpha parts of any brain’s quagmire.

From the Falcon Hill, he monitored the world for an emergence
Of the giants from that other world, to use as his resurgence
Of a power he’d control, by feeding dream worlds to the brain,
While he actually was using them to raise his kind of Cain.

When, eventually, Queen Nonvor came with Ambloome (for a visit),
Jenyfer, Braisyde, Lee-John, towards a setting so exquisite,
Namely Norway’s Coast; Cabilo, who had monitored and tracked
Recent amulet appearances to Braisyde’s beach, attacked.

With his lens, Cabilo perpetrated sudden, quick intrusions,
Into all their minds, and fed all five the wildest of illusions.
While believing she was doing other things, the leading two
Used their amulets, to transport all of them into Peru.

This would be the first of countries, which Cabilo’s dreaming minions
Would attack and override the local government’s opinions.
Unaware of their own rampage, all three giants played it rough,
While the Vikings did the subtle tasks, when size was not enough.

While Queen Nonvor struck a city, doing damage to its dairy,
In her mind, she thought she really fought the leading Fire Fairy
(Her old enemy from Ambloome I), but not the way that things
Really happened then. Her mind believed that she could save the king.

In reality, her husband had passed on, before the onslaught
Of the Fire Fairies. Now her mind forgot her latter consort,
Namely Zellit, who had helped her clear her name, when she was charged.
Meanwhile Jenyfer and Ambloome hid at earth size, then enlarged.

While the younger giant girls approached the temples and assaulted,
Young Lee-John was smuggled close by Ambloome. Then he quickly vaulted,
From his girlfriend’s giant pocket to the window, where the drape
Slowed his movement, as the regent was unable to escape.

At this point, Lee-John believed that, when the pirate crew had plundered
Ambloome’s raft at sea, he’d fought them off, while she had simply wondered
At his swordsmanship, when back then she had really been his aid.
He indulged his mental fantasy, and helped Cabilo’s raid.

All that Lee-John saw was pirates going down, amidst the sea-spray,
As his mind received those images from such an altered replay,
Of events in Ambloome VII. He saw pirates get the bends,
As they sunk; but he was hypnotized by old Cabilo’s lens.

Ambloome saw herself with children, though the records she did witness
(In her journey to the future), showed that, though she had the fitness,
She had never gone ahead with plans to build her family tree.
Yet her mind lived contradictions to the facts that once would be’.

‘ So Cabilo had her capturing a base well armed with missiles,
And then orchestrating on-the-spot Peruvian dismissals
Of the highest leaders of the land, with no sign of dismay,
As her master-of-the-mind Cabilo came to have his way.

Since Cabilo’s lens had also got to Jenyfer’s possession
Of her faculties, her mind had made an uncontrolled regression,
To her childhood dreams of playing dolls with someone she had learned
(So much later) was more suitable than someone she then spurned.

Yet, instead of meeting him at Ambloome’s party (per the telling
In eleventh of these stories), she now found her mind was swelling
With another version, where they met as children. So Braisyde
Never had the chance to be the man she’d looked for far and wide.

He was instantly available in her mind’s alteration,
Less appreciated, since she’d built a faster expectation,
Seen it gratified in childhood, with Cabilo’s mind control,
While her body stopped some tanks, before their treads could start to roll.

She would grab each tank and turn it gently topsy-turvy.
In Lee-John’s mind he had saved Ambloome from several of the scurvy
Thieving pirates, and she thanked him for the rescue of her raft.
He dispatched them all, received her love and thanks, and then went aft.

Nonvor still thought she was winning, as she shot a hydro pellet
(In her mind against the Fire Fairy), still forgetting Zellit
(Her new partner) and the fact that Lester came to use his gun,
(His toy water rifle), dousing Fairies’ flame in Ambloome I.

In the mean time, Viking Two (Braisyde) had also been subjected
To Cabilo’s mental misconstructions. He had once expected,
As a teenager, that he would find some sweetness back at school,
When in fact results of courtship ventures always turned out cruel.

In the daydreams, which Cabilo’s lens induced, he had the normal
Opportunity to take a pretty girl to high school formal,
Go for picnics, kiss in privacy, and feel that every date
Came with freely given feelings he could just reciprocate.

With an absence of the loneliness, the sneering and the teasing
Which had really happened, Braisyde found his altered teens quite pleasing.
With his mind believing all of this, it really wasn’t hard
For Cabilo to make use of him as nearby bodyguard.

Yet one detail had been overlooked, or else miscalculated.
Though Cabilo’s lens took memories from their minds and recreated
Them with differences, which mesmerized his targets; he could not
Know the true extent of Braisyde’s pain, which had become his lot.

He’d struck adolescence at thirteen, and watched the girls he’d honour
(With his dreams) all pairing up with bullies (who’d made him a goner
In the playground in his first two years of school). The grief remained
In his mind, as it accumulated, all those years ingrained.

It could not just be rewritten, when Cabilo’s lens implanted
False accounts. Unlike the others, Braisyde’s mind had raved and ranted
Of the seven years of broken heart, restored in time to break
Once again. He’d often found it almost more than he could take.

So his brain broke through the Alpha-Mind-World thoughts, which did enable
Him to take Cabilo by surprise, and properly turn the table.
First he struck him with his sword, but only used the weighty flat,
So to knock him out. The soldiers left him tied up on the mat.

Then Braisyde released his friends from what Cabilo’s lens was doing.
When Peru learned what had happened, they saw nothing worth pursuing,
Since they’d also been apprised of how the Seven Sentinels
Of the Daylight came from Ambloome’s world to stop the Sun Cult’s cells.

Now Lee-John and Ambloome (with her giant amulet) stayed in her world, occupied,
While Braisyde and Jenyfer spent time on earth; and then using his amulet, tried
To get to the giant world. Somehow their amulet (normal sized) wasn’t responding.
So Braisyde soon opened it up with some tweezers, and looked at some loose copper bonding.

He couldn’t repair it, but went to Professor Flyte (Viking, aged 40), to show
The problem. Then Friemann Flyte said he would do what he could to make their device go.
Not only did Friemann Fltye get that one working, but also the handsome professor
Reverse engineered the technology, making another, with him its possessor.

Flyte went to the palace of giants himself, and concealed himself deep in some plants,
Watched Nonvor have lunch in the courtyard, until he was found, and subjected to rants:
‘Just what do you think that you’re doing, small man’ You’ve upset my lunch, secretly spying.
You should have just let me get on with my meal. You could see that your presence was trying.’

He answered, ‘I came to supply you with amulets I can make, so you’ll have more,
For Ambloome and Jenyfer, Braisyde and Lee-John and you; but I never foresaw
That you would be angry. I’ll go, if you like, and I’m sorry that I have been spoiling
Your lunch.’ Then as Nonvor approached with her hand, Friemann Flyte found his body recoiling.

‘I jumped to conclusions,’ Queen Nonvor explained, and invited the genius to come
For a party that night in the palace. She emptied the juice from a 2 gallon drum
Down into some punchbowls, and then lost her wedding ring, when it went suddenly slipping
From finger to punchbowl, and sank to the bottom. So Friemann went gallantly dipping.

While holding his breath, he swam right to the bottom and soon found the large diamond ring,
She’d continued to wear, even while dating Zellit, as she had been wife of the king.
The Queen was so grateful, and said she was sorry for being unpleasant at midday.
He said, ‘It’s alright. You were merely surprised. I’d forgotten whatever you did say.’

He went home with his amulet, changing his clothes, and came back, when the party commenced.
He stayed in the garden, too shy of the giants; and meanwhile the Queen was incensed.
She noticed a maiden the same age as Zellit, who kept making frequent advances,
To which he’d responded with small talk at first, and then offered the maiden two dances.

The Queen went outside, and was followed by one of the soldiers, who’d seen her react.
The soldier made passes at Nonvor, who struggled, and felt she was being attacked.
She warned him that he’d have to leave, if he mauled her. The soldier remained non-compliant.
Concerned for her welfare, the well-hidden Friemann took stock of the menacing giant.

He lunged with his Viking sword, straight at the soldier, retracting as soon as he’d pierce
His ankle. He hid in the garden again. Yet the moment was making him fierce.
The soldier went screaming for help, unaware of what really had just perforated
His ankle. The Queen spotted Friemann and thanked him, and then sought the young man she’d dated.

In less than a day, such a valiant Queen of the giants had had the delight
Of seeing that she had been wrong in prejudging the latest from earth: Friemann Flyte.
Her younger man boyfriend named Zellit had lately been less than an adequate suitor;
And now that she’d seen him in action, she felt that the tiny professor was cuter.

She broke up with Zellit, on friendly terms only, with both of them perfectly sure,
That what they had built on his earlier rescue was not meant to be evermore.
She realized that Flyte was much closer to her age, and thanked him for how he had fought hard,
Protecting her honour. Then Nonvor soon lifted him up for a dance in the courtyard.

Now Ambloome and Lee-John had gone to the balcony, so they could sit and converse.
‘You’ve kept me quite stable, since I had to watch my late husband removed in a hearse,’
Said Ambloome. I would have been tempted to try to make use of the time travel circuit
In Lester’s old amulet, though it was weeks before my giant fingers could work it.

I wanted so much to go back into time and approach him, before we had met,
By visiting him in his past back on earth. But the history is meant to be set.
Temptation was in me, to follow my heart, even though I still knew I’d be causing
A temporal paradox. Falling for you put that urge far beyond merely pausing.’

The moon (of the giants) was full. So she took him for walks in the garden below,
(Not the one on the side of the palace, where Nonvor and Friemann were starting to show
Their mutual affections). So Lee-John and Ambloome drew closer, becoming united.
Surprised by the turn of events for the Queen, the Professor was also excited.

Two guests didn’t stay late: the giantess Jenyfer, who had already arranged
With Braisyde, to go for a walk in the fields on the giant hills. Both of them changed
To nightwear at her place, and slept in their rooms; until Autumn took time to be sunny,
Next morning. They went to the fields, and she shrank to his size, and said, ‘Cuddle me, honey.’

She put down the things that she’d carried, and now found that there was much room on the rug
For both of them (once she had shrunken). Then Braisyde gave Jenyfer one lengthy hug,
And kissed her and looked, as the sun lit the fields; and they felt themselves well isolated,
Enclosed by a nice panorama of timelessness. Both of their hearts were elated.

At one point, she teased him for fun, and he played back, and, as lovers do, she then chased
Her boy through the fields, to the Wood, then enlarged, lest her giant sized legs go to waste.
‘No fair,’ laughed the boy, as she caught him in no time, and carried him back on her shoulder.
He swung back and forth, with her hair, so their reverie games became just slightly bolder.