He looked at the horizon.
The tribe's elevated plateau was visible now — the specific, broad construction style of giantess architecture, scaled for occupants who began at six feet as a baseline, the palace complex at the center rising above the settlement's outer structures with the specific density of a ruling house that had been ruling for a long time.
He felt the specific, interesting warmth of her body against his arm the entire way.
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The guards saw him from the plateau's edge.
Two of them, outer perimeter, the specific wide-shouldered stance of giantess tribe men who stood at a height that made most cultivators' threat assessments recalibrate on sight — and they saw him coming down from the sky, landing at the wide stone path that led to the palace complex, with a woman in his arms.
They recognized the woman.
The recognition and the alarm arrived simultaneously.
