“You don’t have to say anything,” said Pandora, “I’ve had my own dreams about becoming a giant for my own reasons for the last ten and a half years. We’ll work out all the details together, and soon we’ll leave the troubled economies of Australia and the United States behind us.”

Mick and Bob went off to the pool room to play billiards, while Pandora stayed in the room to continue talking to Reba.

“Why did you want to become a giant all these years anyway?” asked Reba.

“It started with an amazing story I heard over ten years ago,” said Pandora, “Bob was directing an episode of ‘Romance Hotel’. You were still at school, and living with your father most of the time. Bob held a cast and crew dinner party after filming completed on that episode, and one of the cast was Trudi Northumberland. Remember her from ‘Mountains Family’?”

“Sure. I grew up on the later seasons, and then the reruns of the early episodes,” said Reba.

“Well Trudi and I became instant friends, and she told me a lot. It seems that there’s another way into that giant land, or at least into another part of it, that involves a portal in an Irish forest. Trudi and some young man she met in Ireland are aware of that portal and told me about it. It can’t be anywhere near the Upsizing program though, because Trudi didn’t know anything about an Upsizing colony or any of what you’ve told me today.”

“I guess the distance up there is relatively easier for the giants to traverse than it would be for us to get to Ireland,” said Reba, “But if that’s how far away the access points are on earth, then there must be a corresponding distance between them in the giant land. There’s a portal that runs from West Lindfield bush to the gardens of the giant offices of the G.R.O.W.T.H. agency too, but we mainly use the teleportation part of their technology to travel between worlds.”

“Well I’d have wanted to go through that Irish portal, but only if there’d been some way for me to become a giant,” said Pandora, leaving out everything Trudi had told her about time travelling and leprechauns and Murray’s major shrinking episode.

“So you wanted to move there anyway?” asked Reba.

“Well I wanted to become a giant, and that would have been the only place to do it,” said Pandora, “The reason is that something Trudi told me gave me the idea that it would be one of the best treats of my life to be able to eat a normal sized man whole. I don’t mean Bob, but I wouldn’t want him to know about something he probably wouldn’t approve of. I’ve got plenty of time to find someone else who doesn’t know about Bob either, invite him to meet me in the giant land without being Upsized, and then I’ll tell him why I’ve brought him there.”

“I wonder how he’ll react, when he hears that,” said Reba.