“Luke…say something…please?” Aisell said sucking in her lips and stroking on them nervously with her tongue inside her mouth.

The tiny man in her palm was just staring at the soft skin of the hand he was sitting in. He had quietly sat and listened to her explain Humanity’s place in the vast Titan Empire. He had gone quite pale and she could feel tiny vibrations in her palm as he shook. She didn’t know if it was fear, anger or both but she was starting to feel nervous. Knowing the truth could change things between them. And Luke still didn’t know the whole truth.

“Am…am I your pet?” Luke said without looking up.

Aisell bit her lip. She could very easily say yes. He couldn’t get away from her now she had him. But it wouldn’t be fair. He wasn’t some cheery, tame pet you bought in a store. He was a sentient being who had previously had a life that had been cruelly snatched away from him. A life that was similar to hers. She would hate if it her freedom was stolen from her.

“No…you’re not my pet…that is unless you want to be…” Aisell spoke slowly.

Luke’s eyes shot to hers and he backed up her palm as far as he could. “No! Take me back! Take me back now!”

“Luke you’re not well…” She blurted out desperately before he cut her off.

“Take me back! Take me back! Take me back!” Luke yelled.

Aisell quickly lowered Luke to the bed surface and dropped to her knees on the floor lowering her eyes to be level with the clearly panicked Human. “Please Luke…please…I’m here for five more days. Just stay with me until then so I know you’re ok, then I swear I’ll take you home!”

“Five days? You said five days two days ago?” Luke said catching Aisell off guard. She’d expected more shouting.

“Ehhh…the antidote for the poison is going to cost me two day’s pay…so I’m here for a bit longer…”

Luke’s anger started to evaporate. She’d been kind to him so far but she hadn’t done anything that had actually put her out. Not until now. He looked around the room and drew in his dark, dank surroundings. It was nearly as nasty as his own hole in the ground. He wouldn’t want to stay here a second longer than he had to if he were in her position. But she’d trapped herself here a bit longer, working a crappy job to save his life.

“Aisell…” Luke spoke up.

“Please will you stay?” Aisell pleaded. She actually made it sound like it was his decision.

“I have some questions first…and I need you to be honest.” Luke approached her and looked her in the eyes.

“Ok…I’ll be honest.” She said brushing loose, golden hair behind her ears.

“Have you ever…owned…a person?”

Aisell focused hard on Luke. She didn’t know if he could read her expression or not but she wanted him to trust her. She had to tell the truth. “Yes…”

“And you saw nothing wrong with that?!”

Aisell shook her head. “No…it’s been normal to have pet Humans for centuries. We protect you, love you, care for you. We’re not evil people Luke. Those Humans lived long and happy lives.”

Luke shook off the anger he felt rising within him. He’d come to trust, even like Aisell. But now he didn’t know. “And when you first saw me, did you want to make me your pet?”

Aisell looked nervous. Her eyes dropped away from him.

“The truth Aisell!”

“Yes I did…” Luke went to cut across but Aisell raised her voice easily drowning out the tiny man. “But I didn’t know who you were then! Or where you were from! I couldn’t do that to you. If someone abducted me, took my freedom from me I’d hate them forever. I promise, you’ll never be my pet.”

“So in five days when you leave, you’ll take me back to the canteen?” Luke asked.

Aisell nodded. “If that’s what you want then that’s what I’ll do.”

Luke thought for a minute, occasionally glancing at the huge, hopeful face in front of him. She looked desperate for him to stay. He knew she was worried about his health but maybe this was just as much for her as it was for him. She was all alone here. He was all alone here. She’d saved his life and he had no way to repay her apart from making her a little bit less lonely. And maybe she could help him in another way.

“I’ll stay…but I have two conditions.” He said puffing out his chest and standing tall as if he were the one in charge.

“Ok…”

“When you go home, you leave me back to the canteen.” He said firmly.

“I swear!”

Luke shifted on his feet. This one was a bit bigger. “And you have to help me to get back home, to Earth…”

Aisell looked down at the Human asleep in the palm of her hand. Poor Luke was exhausted. He’d done his best to stay awake but after being poisoned, nearly dying, climbing Aisell and the revelation of just what was going on around him he had dropped off pretty quickly. They’d talked for a while longer. Luke shared a bit about his old life, his childhood in Colorado, his family, how he was in his final year of College studying Literature. Luke had drifted off mid conversation and Aisell left him where he lay in her hand.

She sighed and glanced at the time on her pad. “Ergh…I have to be up in seventeen hours…”

She reached her arm behind her and picked up the red cloth and gently dropped Luke’s sleeping form into it before wrapping him up and placing him on the table beside the bed. Aisell turned off the light and rolled over to her side looking straight at Luke.

Guilt was robbing her of sleep.

“I’ll do everything I can to help you get home Luke.” She repeated in her mind over and over again.

She hadn’t lied to Luke but she hadn’t exactly told him the truth either. She had no way to get him home. There was no possible way to get him home but she hadn’t the heart to tell him. Not yet. She would have to eventually though.

She sighed and closed her eyes. She could still see some light even through her closed eyelids. She opened them again and looked at the sliver of light coming through from the gap under the door. It used to bother her but she’d gotten used to it or at least she thought she had.

“Argh! I have to sleep! I have things to do tomorrow!” She groaned inside her head. She sprang up and fluffed her pillow and dropped back down with a thump. Her mind was still buzzing.

“I’ll do everything I can to help you get home Luke.”

Aisell opened her eyes wearily. Her pad was making a horrid screeching noise. She was a heavy sleeper and had deliberately chosen the most obnoxious alarm possible. The sleepy girl slapped her hand down in the pad and silenced it. She noticed movement out of the corner of her eye as Luke rolled over in his makeshift bed.

The sleepy Titan kicked her legs out of bed and dropped to the floor. She lowered her eyes level with the top of the table and poked Luke gently.

“Hey…Luke…wakey wakey. Time to get up!” she said softly. It felt nice having someone else there with her. Some company to wake up to rather than sitting around by herself until it was time to go get food or go to work.

Luke stretched and blinked awake. He was warm and comfortable and it took him a few seconds to come to and remember where he was. His vision cleared and he smiled at the happy looking Titaness sitting in front of him.

“How are you feeling?” Aisell asked with cheery tone.

Luke threw the cloth back and got out of bed and stretched, letting out a long groan. “Yeah good thanks. Leg’s still a bit stiff but good.”

Aisell smiled and resisted and urge to reach out and stroke the little Human. “Good! You kinda just zonked out in my hand. I just sort of held you for a bit…I hope you don’t mind…”

“No…it’s ok. It was nice…sitting and talking with someone…I haven’t done that in a while.” Luke shifted uncomfortably.

Aisell looked down and stroked her messy hair. “Yeah it was…”

Luke noticed Aisell’s anxiety, she was glancing around the room and occasionally back to him. It was clear she was just as lonely as he was. It explained why she had been so eager to befriend him when they first met. Luke felt bad for her. He empathised with her. He didn’t know how long he’d been alone for but it had been a long time.

“You’re lonely too huh?”

Aisell looked up at him and smiled shyly. “Yeah…I used to like being on my own…not anymore though…done it for too long.”

The pair looked around nervously for a minute not quite sure what to say. Both felt vulnerable and had hit an awkward bump in the conversation, stalling it. Aisell waited for Luke to say something but he looked just as stumped as she did. She got up decided to change the subject.

“I dunno about you but I’m pretty hungry!” She walked to her drawers and grabbing a towel.

“Yeah me too…starved actually!”

Aisell walked to a sliding door in the wall and opened it revealing an old, lime scaled walk-in shower.

“Would you mind turning around?” she said to Luke who was gawking in her direction. She assumed he was waiting for her to undress but he was actually looking at what was the first thing that could give him a hot shower in a long time.

“Ehhh…sure. Do you think I could use that when you’re done? I haven’t had a shower in…well let’s just say it was in my dorm on Earth!” Luke said turning sideways.

Aisell was about to drop the straps from her nightie but instead turned around and walked over to Luke. “How long ago was that exactly?”

Luke shrugged. “I’ve no idea…the days here are a different length from Earth and I’ve no way to keep track of those. Months at least…”

Aisell knelt down and held her hand out for Luke to step on. “Do you mind if I…?”

“Sure!” Luke stepped on eager to demonstrate just how much he needed a wash.

Aisell lifted him carefully to her face and held him under her nose. Luke decided to keep his eyes ahead of him on her pretty lips rather than look up into the large proboscis that was about to draw in a large amount of the air around him. Luke’s hair ruffled as air rushed passed his ears and into Aisell’s nose. He was quickly thrown from his feet as her hand shot away from her face.

“Ewwww…you smell rotten!” Aisell looked like she was about to gag.

Luke stood back up and furrowed his brow. “Gee thanks…I love it when girls tell me just how awful I smell.”

“Sorry…ok I think you’re right. You need a wash!” Aisell looked over to the sink in the corner thinking it would be most suitable before remembering it wouldn’t be. “Well I could give you a bath in the sink but it would have to be cold, the hot water’s never worked.”

“Can I not just use the shower?” Luke asked. He desperately wanted just to stand under a warm torrent of water for at least an hour to get rid of many months’ worth of dirt and grime.

Aisell walked over to the shower and turned it on. The water pressure was quite high and it was more like a steaming hot Angel Falls than a shower. Luke almost instantly felt a blast of warm, humid air hit him, he really wanted a shower but he doubted he could even stand up under the torrent. He watched Aisell point to the dark 4 foot wide hole in the well of the shower.

“Well if you think you can without getting washed down there then sure you can use it…” Aisell said.

Luke sighed and sat back down in her hand, the familiar feeling of disappointment at being thwarted washing over him.

Aisell looked down at the rather glum looking man. His disappointment was understandable. She’d spent a week walking in the Monaka Mountains once, washing her hair and face in icy cold streams. The first thing she did when she got home was to jump in a roasting hot shower and clean herself up. Poor Luke had been putting up with cold water for months on end. She bit her lip feeling incredibly guilty as she realised there was one way he could shower. It’d be uncomfortable and she wasn’t keen on it but it would make Luke a lot happier.

“Take your clothes off…” she said flatly.

“What?!”

“You can’t shower with your clothes on…so…take them off.” Aisell said still a bit unsure of the idea.

Luke looked down to the flood of water rushing down the plug hole. “I can’t shower at all in there! I’ll be washed away!”

Aisell sighed and raised Luke up to her face. “If I sit on the floor and bow my legs and bend my head over you should be able to stand under the trickles coming off me and not have to worry about getting washed away.”

“And you don’t mind…me…ya know?” Luke asked getting excited more about the warm shower than anything else.

“I do actually. I mind a lot. But it’s the only way you’re getting a hot shower.” Aisell frowned and looked down at Luke.

He suddenly felt a lot less in charge than when she was being happy and gentle. He also wasn’t too keen about being exposed but he didn’t have much choice either. He pulled his rag over his head and dropped his trousers. He expected a titter from Aisell but it didn’t come. He felt a hell of a lot smaller standing in her hand wearing nothing at all.

“Ok…I don’t know what Earth Humans are like but the ones born here don’t really have any understanding of boundaries. I just want you to understand this is a wash, nothing else. If there is any funny business, you’ll be out the door and back in your hole in the floor. Understand?” Aisell said firmly, clearly just as uncomfortable as Luke.

“Yeah Aisell…I wouldn’t dream of it…I’m not that type of guy…” Luke shifted as he covered himself.

“Good…right…let’s just get this done…” she said as she placed Luke on the porcelain sink top and moved her hands up her shoulders towards the delicate straps of the nightie.

Luke turned around and kept his eyes firmly planted on the wall. He didn’t want to anger Aisell given that if he did he’d likely lose his shower privileges, her respect and maybe even her friendship. He heard the silk nightie drop to the floor and before he could object he was surrounded by Aisell’s large hand and wrapped entirely in her grip. He didn’t like it, it was claustrophobic and he had no control over what happened to him in here. He could feel he was moving but he had no way of telling where.

“Ooof…” Luke said as he was suddenly released from Aisell’s hand. He fell into a pool of ankle deep, warm water. The air was warm and humid and he could feel warm water splashing on his skin. He stood up to his full height and took in one of the most magnificent and yet most terrifying things he had ever seen.

“Oh shit…oh…shit…fuck…” he muttered realising Aisell had done exactly as she promised.

She had sat down on the floor of the shower Indian style to stop him from being washed away. She’d left him about ten feet by twenty feet of space to move around in. All around him her gigantic, pale legs rose up like walls made of flesh, her thighs were nearly twenty feet tall. He did his best to fight it but his eyes were drawn to pink lips as tall as he was between her legs, capped with a tuft of short, dirty blonde hair.

Luke backed away from Aisell’s most private parts unconsciously. He couldn’t tear his eyes away from in between her legs. He’d completely forgotten about what she had said. It had been a long time since he’d laid eyes on a woman’s nethers let alone a vagina bigger than he was. He jumped, startled as he backed into Aisell’s hard ankle.

“I thought you said you weren’t a creep?!” Aisell shot down sounding rather hurt and annoyed.

Luke’s head darted up and locked on to her rather annoyed looking face. Her long hair was soaking and had darkened and stuck to the contours of her head and neck. “S…s…sorry…” He said feeling a hell of a lot smaller than he actually was at that particular moment. He crossed his hands across his crotch realising he was behaving inappropriately in other areas.

“Ok…well I’m assuming you’ve not seen a…AHEM…this size before so I’ll let you this one go! Just this once!” Aisell said her tone gradually changing from annoyed to joking.

“Ehhh…thanks…sorry.” Luke said turning around to face her ankle which was the safest place to look.

Aisell smiled as she watched Luke inadvertently moon her. He seemed scared out of his wits. She decided it was best just to carry on with the shower.

“It’s fine, don’t worry about it…if you need to turn around then you can. I can barely hear you over the water anyway.” She extended her arm and held her hand above Luke allowing the stream of water to run down her arm and across her hand. “Now here comes the water!”

“Ohhhh that feels so damn good…” Luke said as the warm water splashed across his head and shoulders before running down the rest of his body. Aisell was being careful to keep the stream of water appropriate for him. Not enough to cause him discomfort but enough to keep him well soaked and warmed through. He ran his hands through his scruffy, near shoulder length hair and scrubbed loose months’ worth of grime, dirt and grease.

Aisell watched the finger sized man intently as he arched his back into the water and ran his hands through his hair. She couldn’t believe how skinny he was. She could see his ribs and shoulder blades jutting out from his back. He was skinnier than she was comparatively. She was arched over the gap in her legs shielding Luke from the bulk of the water. It was beating down on her, massaging the skin of her back and running down her shoulders, arms and torso.

“Here…” Aisell said reaching over to a bottle of green liquid and squirting some into her hand and lowering it to Luke.

Luke was very nervous as her enormous hand loomed large at crotch level. Not the same type of nerves as he used to get from her. This was different. He was naked, rather uncomfortable and a bit wound up by being so close to the naked Titaness. He’d have gotten wound up by her no matter what height she was given how long it had been since he had seen a naked woman. He could feel Aisell’s eyes burning into his back. He didn’t know if she was angry with him or not but he dare not turn around until he’d managed to get the wayward organ between his legs back under control.

“Fine! Guess I’ll just have to do it then.” Aisell said lowering a finger from the hand she was using as Luke’s shower nozzle into the green gel. She scooped a small dollop onto her fingertip and placed it on to Luke’s upper back and started to rub in circles. She could definitely tell he was skinny now. She could feel each of the individual bones in his tiny rub cage.

“Oh…that feels really…oh…really good…” Luke groaned.

Aisell laughed. “Yeah well just don’t think this means anything. You just seem a bit nervous and I don’t want to sit here all day. I’ll put my back out sitting like this!”

Luke arched into her touch like a cat arching into a firm stroke. He felt the digit, as wide as his back, work its way down him, quickly rubbing each of his ass cheeks before working down each leg.

“Turn around” Aisell said gently.

Luke crossed his hands across his midriff doing his best but completely failing to hide his unwanted erection causing Aisell to giggle. It wasn’t so much with him but at him and it felt slightly demeaning. “Come on turn around. I know all about your little friend…and if he thinks I’m going to lather him up he’s got another thing coming! You can wash there yourself!”

“Ehhh…yeah…I can wash myself…” Luke said turning around.

Before he had a chance to reach for some of the gel Aisell’s finger pressed into the top of his shoulder and started to lather up the gel. It was surprising how gentle she was. The finger was the same size as he was and probably weighed many times what he did. Luke winced as the finger travelled across his chest, rubbing in swift circles as it travelled. He didn’t wince out of fear but more from the smell. The gel smelt bitter, almost like anti-septic.

“Yeah I know it smells a bit…it’s the cheap stuff but it’s better than nothing.” Aisell said.

Luke composed himself as he got used to the bitter smell. “It’s not too bad. It’s better than a bucket of cold water!”

Aisell felt the little man tense up as he finger worked its way down over his chest and his stomach. A combination of the lather and the ridges in her finger were obviously were having an effect on him. If he was a pet she might even have indulged him a bit but she’d drawn a line firmly under that. He was a friend and this was awkward enough as it was without adding sexual contact into the mix. She jumped her finger from his belly down to the top of his leg and continued to wash him.

Luke closed his eyes and rolled them back as he supressed a moan. He wanted to do nothing more than to finish himself off but he didn’t think Aisell would appreciate it. The gigantic woman rubbed some of the gel into his hair before she finished washing him and returned her hand to its position above him. The water once again ran off it and cascaded down on top of him, washing away the bitter smelling lather. He took the opportunity to quickly scrub between his legs while he had the chance.

“Wow…you’re not actually brown coloured…you’re more tan!” Aisell joked. “Except your bottom, it’s oddly pale!”

“Oh har har! You’re pale all over. At least I have some colour.”

Aisell made a faux gasp at the insult. “Well I was going to let you have a shave and a haircut but now you’re just going to have to keep the beard.”

“Awk c’mon! I hate this beard! I’m much prettier without it!” Luke protested.

The pretty girl smiled down at him, cupping her hand and letting it fill with water. “Hmmm…we’ll have to see about that.”

Aisell quickly turned her hand over and dumped several bathful’s of warm water over the surprised man between her legs, knocking him to the floor.

Luke spluttered and wiped water from his face and hair. “Hey!” he yelled a bit annoyed at the giggling girl. He would have been more annoyed but he caught a glimpse of her massive chest shaking as she laughed.

She reached a hand down beside him and motioned for him to step in. “Time for you to get out now, my turn to get cleaned up. Then we can get some breakfast.”

“Sounds good” Luke said as he stepped on to the slippery skin. “I’m starving!”