It caught his attention. This voice wasn’t like any of the giants’ voices–loud, deep, and husky. This was different. The voice was like music to his ears. He looked around; trying to find where the voice came from, but no one seemed to be around.
“Hello?”
He looked up. It was a female’s voice. It seemed to come from the skies–the kingdom of the gods. Gods do not just talk with the ones below. How come a goddess could just talk to him, a lowly giant? Should he answer it? Wouldn’t it be offensive to the gods? But curiosity got into him and when he opened his mouth to talk, nothing came out and he ended up coughing. The goddess, laughed. He was mesmerised. How could someone have a voice as beautiful as that?
From there they started talking for a long time, and every day the giant would go to the same place, hoping to get a chance to talk to the goddess. Each day he would come to talk to her, the urge to come close and see her gets stronger. He told her this, and she said that it is forbidden. Even just by talking to him is already forbidden. The giant realised that he could no longer be afraid of death when his only fear is losing this woman–a goddess he knows he could not reach.
Still he pursued, no longer caring of getting punished. He began to build a big tower made of land and rocks that would be high enough to reach the skies. The goddess tried to stop him, but he didn’t listen. She did not have a choice but to protect him. She took small portions of the clouds and surrounded it around the tower and the giant, hiding him from the gods and the rest of the giants. But no secret is hidden forever. The gods sensed that something is wrong, and finally discovered their secret. The goddess was captured and held in prison. Because of this, the clouds that kept the giant safe vanished. Instead of giving up, the desire to save