"Ughhh... Fuuuckkk..." Jax slowly stirred.

“You know, it would be refreshing if for once you woke up and didn't swear.”

"Huh? Whaaaa... Ugh..."

"Never mind. Welcome back... How you feeling big guy?" The warrior groaned again shifting uncomfortably on the skin. "Easy, easy, there's no hurry. Just relax... Stay awhile."

"Where am I? What happened? Why is everything so bright?"

"Laying on a palm, you almost died, and because it's midday. Any other questions?"

"Doesn't surprise me I almost died again, but what the fuck happened? I remember the fall... That fucking sucked... And then..." He covered his face with his hands and tried to massage the pounding feeling away.

"Do you not remember everything?" Grom asked.

"We landed. It was dark. I was losing a fuck-ton of blood. And then, I guess, just, nothingness. Now I'm here apparently."

“Do you remember crawling over to me? You actually probably saved both of our lives."

"Not even a little."

"You reset my arm, and it let me heal myself, and then you."

“Nothing.”

"Really? You also said some things... I'll admit you certainly didn't sound like yourself.”

“Like what? Was I speaking nonsense?”

“I'm not quite so sure yet...”

“Well what, what did I say?”

"Perhaps I'll tell you later. For now the girls will be glad to know you're alive and well.”

"Oh right, where are the two-" moving his hands and blinking the stinging sun away brought the smaller of the giantesses into view. That smile growing bigger as she saw him moving again. Jax scowled at her image, "Fuck you are big Airvin."

“Good morning to you too cutie.”

"Where the hells is-" his statement wasn't finished as his strong jaw dropped open. Catching the blonde hair out of the corner of his keen eye, he turned and got a chance to behold the bigger giantess for the first time. "Holy fuck are you one big bitch Astrid." It was his turn to be baffled by experiencing a face so expansive her ears were out of sight, simply too far away.

"Yeah she can't even really see us, we're that small," the cleric claimed. "Airvin has that trick of hers and that's the only way we've been able to communicate. I say something... She passes the message along.”

Completely serious Jax turned to the mage, "Hey Airvin, tell Astrid she's too fucking big."

"Well look at that. Astrid, Jax is okay and back with us, and he says you are simply too big." The massive woman rolled her eyes.

"Hey! Those aren't all the words I said! Don't you dare censor me woman!"

"I am not going to broadcast your profanity Mr. Caldera."

"The hell's you're not! You repeat exactly what I said this instant!" Airvin raised her other hand and extended her finger. The cleric barely manage to roll out of the way of that descending poke. It pressed the stubborn man into her palm. Wind knocked out and a few popped joints later, Jax was completely smothered by that fingerprint. The large finger rose back up revealing the flattened man. Grom genuinely didn't know how okay his current state was as he laid there grumbling.

"Ehh... He's probably fine. I'm sure I've seen him walk away from worse..." he said, staring at his defeated friend. "The power of a poke..." The healer turned again to face Astrid. "I do believe you understand that you, yourself, aren't really going anywhere... Right?"

"Yeah I know... It would be devastating if I even just took a small walk across this land."

"Sweetheart, nothing you do can be small," the warrior painfully wheezed still trying to recover.

Airvin didn't relay that but instead offered, "Wherever we go or whoever we actually talk to, you are going to have to carefully deposit us. It is absolutely ridiculous, but you can easily spread your wingspan and cover any distance we would have to travel."

"Yeah that makes sense," the colossal thief said blushing again. It only took a few moments for her to forget that stage but once she remembered it again, brought immeasurable amount of embarrassment. Getting up, Grom took a deep breath of that high altitude air. The pleasant chill on his nostrils as he moved over to Jax.

"Come on, up you go," he said grabbing the warrior by the hand and lifted him to his feet. "Keep upsetting the huge women, it's entertaining."

The muscle-bound man moved his mouth to talk but Airvin accidentally talked over him, "Speaking of upsetting, I think you should be the one to tell him."

"Tell me what?" Jax barked.

"Why me?" Grom whimpered holding his hand out upturned.

"Are you guys arguing down there?" Astrid's loud voice boomed unexpectedly.

"Just tell him she's the best shot we've got at fixing this. She has the power to purify things like no one else." The confused man turned back to his companion, face scrunched and dripping with befuddlement.

"Ok... So here's the thing..." the healer tried to ease into the conversation. "Now we were thinking about how we're going to solve this, and we thought the best course of action would be to... Have somebody who's good at this sort of thing, purify the gold idol."

"I'm not following this talking around the topic at all. Speak plainly man!"

"Sort of... Wash this item clean of its curse." The answer ran him over.

"Oh fuck no! You can't be fist fucking serious right now." Just a slight twist and he saw the three sets of eyes of various size staring at him. "Gods damn it. You idiots really didn't think of anything else or anyone else?! You're going to make me do this!"

"Jaxiferd, please," Airvin pleaded.

"No. I would rather tumble down titanic tits again then have to ask her. You are all out of your mind."

"Jax..." The giantess brought her hand up close, both tinies not very far away from those wet puppy dog eyes... "Please." The stubborn man brought his hands up and squeezed his head between them, uncomfortably digging his fingernails into his scalp. His whole form then went limp, annoyance smeared across that morning stubble.

“Ugghhh... Fine. Fuck, why does that always work?”

Astrid felt a small tickle near her temple, and swat toward the area, instincts telling her a fly was near. She realized a large cloud had attempted to kiss her head and condensed on her skin. The tiny drops of water collected and chilled in the high altitude. A shiver sprang from the back of her hand all the way up her arm. The tiniest of shutters frolicked across her massive body.

"Woah!" Airvin exclaimed as she had to put her free hand onto the expanse of skin for more stability. Both men tumbled and rolled across the rapidly shifting ground, exclamations abounding. "Oh dear gods! Are you two okay?! Astrid! You have got to be more careful!" The huge woman realized what the tiny motion caused.

"Uhhh... Oops... My bad..." Collecting themselves, the men closed the distance before another monumental earthquake would bring them closer to the edge of this hand, that was their current vehicle.

Grom added, "Jax... We really just gotta fix this as soon as possible. Can we please just get her help with this and see what she can do?"

“Hey! I already said fine! What more do you want from me?!" the warrior spit, rolling his left shoulder now bruised from the tumble.

"Okay good... How can we help you, and what do you need? You can like... Sort of, just kind of, find her if you want to right?"

“I need to be a hells of a lot closer to the ground and I'm going to need some way of telling tiny over here which way is closer.”

“So she's going to have to move her hand like... Really slowly while you meditate?"

“I honestly don't even know if it's possible. I've never tried locating from up in the air before. And unfortunately, with the jumps of scales, it's not like she can set us on the ground and pick us back up again. For fucks sake, she just had a shiver spasm and it almost killed us.”

"I think we could manage... I mean... We have to."

"Guys, I only caught glimpses of that," the smallest giantess said. "What do I tell Astrid?" They went over the early stages of their plan quickly but the perceived silence of the restless thief worried the huge gal.

"Is everybody okay down there? What are you all talking about?" the blonde asked.

"All right Astrid, Jax is going to attempt a locating. That means you are going to have to move your hand incredibly slowly or he won't be able to detect at all."

“Okay but then how are you guys going to let me know when to, like stop or whatever? You'll be all the way down in my hand." The giantess brought up such a good point there was more perceived silence even though the others chatted about this.

"Can you make a light that she could see?" the cleric asked the mage.

"I'm pretty sure it's too bright out for her to see any light. I mean, I could try like stepping on her really hard or something." The big woman stomped hard a few times on the even bigger woman's hand. "Did you feel that?"

"Barely... Do you want to try it on my fingertip? That might work better." Airvin slowly turned and looked nervously down one of her humongous digits. Standing in a palm had at least some illusion of safety. An illusion that dissipated on that much narrower pink road.

"Fuck it, let's try it."

"Hey I have to walk down that... And if I fall so do both of you!"

“Yeah so don't fucking fall, how hard is that?!"

"You got this Airvin! I believe in you," Grom added. But did she believe in herself? Eyes fixated on that journey, she took several deep breaths before starting with great reluctance. After several paces her momentum slowed like cooled honey. The healer saw that look on the warriors face and interrupted before he could spout whatever he intended to, "Hey... Maybe take it down a notch before you say anything. In fact maybe don't say anything right now. How often do you literally hold the lives of your friends in your hands?" About to argue, he then realized that was a fair point.

"All right I'll give you that," Jax said mildly. Good thing too... Because the balancing woman was not okay. Trying not to look in every direction, only made temptation to steal glances all the worse. Looking over this fairly smooth column, met a significant drop to the mountain of a breast below. Further past that, things only grew worse. The curvature of the thieves body disappearing still so high in the sky... Above absolutely every physical piece of topography the landscape could produce. Absolutely no denying it... A fall off of Astrid meant death.

"Hey Grom. I promise I'm going to be cool okay? I'm cool," the slightly taller man said calmly.

"I believe you," the healer replied.

"I said I'm gonna be cool!"

"Lord above, I said I believe you!"

"Oh shit, I expected more resistance. And by the way, ain't no way your God is higher than us right now." Grom rolled his eyes. Jax raised his voice in a stern and authoritative tone, "Airvin please stop for a second and breathe. In and out. Nice and easy." The command caught her off guard and she did so peering down at the tiny standing akimbo. "Relax your shoulders. You're so tense right now, because you're thinking about everything that could go wrong. All that may be true, but think about what you need to accomplish. You have a job to do. We need this to work, so we can get on to the next chance at fixing this. Just walk like you would normally. As soon as I stop talking, let your other hand casually swing, and don't think about anything else. Just go."

The smaller giantess listened intently until that break of conversation hit. Some unexplained force propelled her forward as she started walking, half not knowing how she started moving and half listening to her friend. Her pace wasn't calculated but certainly faster than before. And Airvin felt a wash of relief focusing on her hanging limb then an untimely fall.

"You just got to get to her fingertip. Sure it's really fucking big, but still a fingertip. It's just right there and you're going to get there. All right?"

"All right," she responded softly.

"Good. See you're already over halfway. Steady as she goes. You're doing great sweaty." Indeed the group had passed those darker lines in the skin. The second set of wrinkles, marking another knuckle, drew closer as the mage continued calmly. "You don't have to not think about it, ya just can't be scared of it. Even I can admit this is a pretty fucking impressive view."

With a few more steps she had made it to the middle of the fingertip. The spiraling grooves of the ground almost seemed to wrap around the three. The whole time Astrid was completely transfixed on the travel like watching an ant crawl across your body. It took her friend so much time to traverse such a insignificant feature. What would it have been like if the microscopic men had to do the same? The massive woman waited for instructions as she saw the tiny friend turn to face her. Airvin stomped her foot twice. Not with too much strength as to gauge what the much larger giantess could feel.

"Did you feel that just now?" she asked.

"I did! It was fairly light but I certainly did." The tiny mage stomped a little harder again but then switched to her other foot and did two more.

"Any chance you felt the difference between my right and left feet stomping?"

"Eh... I got to be honest, I felt them but not which one was which. You're just kind of tiny you know..."

"Actually really massive I'll remind you," Airvin offered, stealing a glance at the tiny party members in her own palm. Going through many more moments of charade, they came up with a relatively functional way to communicate through tapping. At least they could discern simple directions... For the most part. The little mage made her way back to the big palm, never once before thinking a hand could hold such security.

"All right, looks like we're ready to attempt this. Anything else we got to go over?” Grom asked.

Airvin chimed in excitedly, "I'm ready to give this a shot!"

"I've got absolutely no idea if this can even work but what the hell's," Jax shrugged.

"Fantastic you guys! But before we do that... Real quick I want to try something," Astrid said with a smile, shifting her weight up.

"Umm... What pray tell do you intend to do?" the smaller woman asked nervously.

"Get ready for a really amazing view you guys... I'm going to stand up."

"Astrid please don't!" she begged. "We have absolutely no idea what could happen if you move your body around that much!"

"Relax. What's the worst that could happen?"