In the Land of the Giantesses

Todd lounged in the tall grass beside the big squat brick house, lounged here in the tall grass. Here for a few minutes he might be safe from the tender attentions of the giantess Ashedra. He might even make a break for it and run... no, better not even to think of running away. The giantess Ashedra would catch him, and she would be very angry. If Todd ever tried to escape, he knew Ashedra would punish him severely.

Todd looked up in the clear blue sky, he looked up at the pale tangerine sun. What an odd sun! Todd glanced down the slope into the valley, at the grain fields which grew and harvested themselves with no visible farm workers. He looked -- oh oh, here came Ashedra around the corner of the house!

Ashedra, all twelve foot six of her, stood still for just an instant as she caught sight of Todd. Then she loped toward him, and before Todd could do more than just rise to his feet, Ashedra the giantess caught him in her arms. She wrapped her gigantic strong arms around him, she began dragging him around toward the front door of the huge squat brick house. Todd tried to cry out, but then Ashedra wrapped her huge warm strong right hand tightly over Todd's mouth and nose and lower face.

"Mmmmmmmmhhh, hmmmm mmmmm hmmmmmm mmmmmmmmm, hhhmmm mmmmm mmmmmmmh hmmmmm, mmmmm'mmm HHMMMMMM!! MMMMMMMHHHH!!! MMMMMMMMMMHHH!!" Todd writhed and squirmed in Ashedra's unbreakable embrace, he tried to scream from behind her huge tight gagging hand, but Ashedra wouldn't let him go, and Todd couldn't get away from her no matter how hard he struggled. The giantess was way too strong for Todd, she could hold him and he was utterly unable to escape from her. Todd twisted and mmmmmphed in Ashedra's arms as she dragged him into the house.

Now Ashedra wanted to hold Todd for a while. She sat down on the divan and held Todd on her lap. Todd was sitting on Ashedra's lap, facing forward, and she had her left arm wrapped firmly across his stomach. She kept her right hand clamped tight over Todd's mouth and nose and the lower two-thirds of his face; his eyes were just barely able to peek out above the giantess's huge gagging hand. "Mmmmmmhhh, hmmmm mmmmmm hhmmmmm MMMMMMMMMHH!" Todd reached up and pulled on Ashedra's huge strong smooth hand, her hand larger than a place mat, but he couldn't pull her hand away from his face, not even tugging and pulling on her hand with all his strength.

Ashedra liked to hold Todd like this. She liked to hold him wrapped up in her huge arms. She liked to hold Todd on her lap. And especially she liked to hold Todd's mouth. It amused her to see how Todd mmmmmphed and struggled and couldn't get away from her.

For a long while the giantess held Todd on her lap with her hand clamped over his mouth. Then at last she let him go, and she got up to fix supper. Todd breathed hard and fast, now that he was able to breathe more freely again. He looked around him inside this big squat brick house -- not so large a house for a giantess, really, one good sized room; but to Todd it looked as huge as the inside of a barn. Ashedra was cooking over a fire in the fireplace, the same fireplace that heated this house. Nothing high tech here. And Todd knew Ashedra's supper would be simple fare, tasty and filling but simple food taken straight from the soil.

Todd sat there on the divan, looking at Ashedra as she busied herself over the fire. To all appearances she was an attractive young woman, early twenties, a shapely young earth mother of a woman, brown eyes, long wavy cascading locks of black hair. Todd might have asked a woman like her out on a date, except Ashedra stood, by Todd's best estimate, twelve and a half feet tall. She was a giantess. Todd didn't even come up to the bottom of her rib cage.

That, and Todd couldn't understand the language of the giantesses. He had picked up on the name of his captor, Ashedra; he had figured out that ikhoz meant "house," and nelga was "fire." But Todd couldn't communicate with the giantess, even when she wasn't engaged in holding her hand over his mouth.

Todd sat at the table with Ashedra and they ate supper. Todd had to sit on a thick pile of cushions on his chair, so he was high enough to reach the table. They ate a meal of a savory meat, and various vegetables Todd couldn't identify. They washed it down with a sparkling clear drink which left Todd slightly elevated. Then Ashedra brought in a bucket of water from the spring out back, and she washed the dishes.

And then she pulled Todd over to the divan again, where she lifted him up onto her lap. And Ashedra the giantess held Todd on her lap, her arms wrapped around him snugly from behind. She held Todd tight, she held him on her lap a while. Then Todd tried to say something, and immediately Ashedra reached up and clamped her large warm soft smooth steel-strong giantess hand tight over Todd's mouth.

"Mmmmmmmmmhhh! Hhhhhmmm mmmmmm mmmm hhmmmm, MMMMMMMHH!! Mmmmmmhh, mmmmmhh, mmmmmhh HHHMMMMM!" Todd couldn't reach up, Ashedra had his arms pinned down inside the tight embrace of her other arm. So Todd twisted and squirmed and jerked around in the giantess's firm immobilizing hold, "MMMMMMMMHHH!", Todd writhed against Ashedra with all his strength as she held him tight in her arms, held him tight and handgagged, and she wouldn't let him go. "Mmmmhhh... mmmmmhhhh.... hmmm'mmmmhhh... ggghh'nnn'mmmmh hmmmmmm!"

Ashedra sure liked to hold Todd tight while he struggled against her! After a while Todd got too noisy with his muffled groans, and so Ashedra reached up and clamped her gigantic smooth strong hand firmly over Todd's entire face. "Mmmmmmhh hhhmmmm hhmmmmmm... hhhhhhh'hhh... pphhhhhh, phh--phh'thhhhhh... mmmmmhhh..... mmmmmmhhh..." The giantess had such huge hands, that she could completely cover Todd's face with her hand, from his jawline all the way up to the top of his forehead, covering his entire face, and wrapped around the sides of his head, covering his ears. Ashedra could enwrap her huge hand over Todd's entire face and the sides of his head, like a big-handed girl palming a grapefruit.

Ashedra kept holding Todd in her arms, holding him tight, covering his face, holding his mouth, holding him no matter how he squirmed and struggled to get away... It amused Ashedra, it made her laugh. She kept holding Todd in various ways all through the evening. Finally the giantess grew sleepy. She went and got a huge blanket, and laid it across them on the divan, which doubled as a bed. The giantess snuggled up against Todd, she threw her huge arm across him, and soon she was fast asleep.

As for Todd, he lay there in the dark, pinned down beneath Ashedra's gigantic confining arm. He thought to himself of the others; for of the eighteen who had come through to this world from earth, he knew at least eleven were still alive. The rest unaccounted for, but at least eleven were still alive: ten of them captives of a giantess, like himself, and old Fitzpatrick still free and eluding capture. Todd thought back to the day when they came through the portal to this world, all part of a top secret US Army project. They came through, and then the portal had closed prematurely, leaving them stranded. Stranded in this world of the giantesses, wherever this world might be. Stranded, captured, subject to the odd whims of the giantesses.

Todd couldn't quite figure how Ashedra looked on him. Not quite as a pet. Not quite as a toy. Not quite as a living doll. She was tremendously pleased with Todd, bursting with pride to own him. She loved to hold him, she loved to hold her hand over his mouth... Todd couldn't figure it out. He drifted off to sleep, pinned down beneath Ashedra's huge arm like a man trapped beneath a fallen log...

In the morning Ashedra held Todd on her lap a while, with her huge smooth strong giantess hands pulled back into the soft of his stomach so tight that his midsection felt like burning ice. Then she made them breakfast, and after that she wanted Todd to get down on the floor with her, where she rolled around with him playfully and then held him tight in her arms with her hand kept clamped over his mouth. She held his mouth a while.

Then Ashedra went out into the yard and did the closest thing to work that Todd had ever seen her do. She got a big fire going beneath an iron cauldron full of water, and she mixed various ingredients into the cauldron as the fire burned. The mixture boiled, it bubbled, it gave off purple smoke which rolled down toward the valley. The wind was right, the smoke rolled down toward the grain fields. Todd couldn't figure it out.

That forenoon Ashedra took Todd out for a walk. They walked on roads which seemed to be made of wood, worn wood painted grey. Only who kept the roads painted? The twelve foot six giantess walked with her arm around Todd's shoulder, and her huge hand kept clamped tight over his mouth. Todd couldn't possibly get his mouth open beneath Ashedra's tight grip. While they were walking, they passed another giantess, the one who now owned the Colonel. Todd, unable to speak, looked in the Colonel's eyes, and the Colonel looked back, mute. The Colonel couldn't speak either, for the other giantess had her placemat-huge hand clamped over the Colonel's mouth and nose.

A little farther on, and Ashedra and Todd came upon a new house, a house that hadn't been there a week ago. A big squat brick house, identical to all the rest. Who put it up? Why hadn't Todd seen or heard any workers?

For that matter, what about the grain fields with their harvested shocks of grain standing neatly in a row, and never a farm worker in evidence out in the fields? There were too many puzzle pieces missing to this land of the giantesses.

Back home, and that afternoon a giantess came calling on Ashedra. This was the giantess who now owned Valerie. Pretty Valerie, with her long curly red hair. Ashedra sat on a chair, holding Todd on her lap, while the other giantess sat on the divan, with Valerie sitting beside her. Valerie couldn't use her arms any more: she had wide white cloth adhesive bandages wrapped tight around and around and around her torso, from her shoulders all the way down to her hips, with her arms pinned down inside the bandages. It looked to Todd like the very same bandages wrapped around Valerie as the last time he had seen her, two weeks ago. Maybe Valerie's owner was punishing her, or maybe Valerie's owner just figured this was a neater and easier way to keep Valerie, with her arms pinned down immobile and useless inside tight bandages.

Todd managed to get out a few words: "Hi, Val, how's it--mmmmmmmmmhhh!! Mmmmmmmmhhhh! Wwwwmmmmmmm, mmmmmm HHHHHMMMMMMMMH!" But he was cut off, as Ashedra clamped her huge warm steely-strong smooth sixteen-inch hand tight over Todd's mouth.

Valerie tried to reply, but before she could even get out a word, the other giantess clamped her immense smooth powerful hand hard over Valerie's entire face, covering the young woman's entire face from her jaw up to her hairline and back across her ears. "Mmmmmmmmmmmhhh, hhhhhhhhmmm mmmmmmmm, mmmmmmmmhhh!!" Todd could faintly hear Valerie's high pitched muffled bleating screams, from behind the tight silencing face-engulfing grip of the giantess's face holding hand.

Ashedra kept her hand over Todd's mouth, and the other giantess kept her hand clamped over Valerie's entire face, all through the rest of the visit. Todd quieted down after a while, but Valerie kept trying to scream from behind the giantess's face-covering hand, all through the entire visit.

After the visitors left, Ashedra let Todd's mouth go and she busied herself with various household tasks until supper. That evening Ashedra, perhaps inspired by her visitor, picked Todd up and set him on her lap on the divan, and there she proceeded to clamp her huge giantess hand hard and tight over Todd's entire face. "Mmmmmmmhh, mmmmmmmmmm!! Hhhhhmmm, mmmmmm hmmmmm mmmmmmmhhh!" Todd was blind and dumb, his face imprisoned in the tight firm unyielding pressure of Ashedra's unrelenting face holding grip. Strong! Todd had to strain to breathe through her hand. He reached up, he blindly felt of the huge velvety back of her hand over his face, he tugged, he pulled, he pried, he pounded on Ashedra's gigantic hand covering his face tight. But even when Todd pulled on the giantess's hand over his face with all his strength, he wasn't able to pull her hand away. He wasn't able to budge her hand a millimeter from its tight unbreakable vise-grip over his face. "Mmmmmmmmmhhh!! Mmmmmmmhh! Mmmmmmmmmmhhhh!"

Because a twelve foot six giantess is way, way stronger than a six foot man, so when she holds her hand clamped steel-tight over his face, he can't pull her hand off or get away from her no matter how hard he struggles against her with all his strength.

That night in the dark, as Ashedra slept and held Todd up against her, hugged tight in her big strong arms, Todd pondered on the mysteries of this land of the giantesses. All the natives he had seen so far were giantesses, twelve feet tall or a little taller, none any shorter. All females, no males. All young women, early twenties-ish, none any older. And no children or youth. A race of young giantess women. How do they reproduce? How do they maintain their numbers? Too many missing puzzle pieces.

The next day, more of Ashedra's daily routine, and more of her taking Todd and holding him in her arms, more of her taking Todd and holding her hand tight over his mouth while he mmmmmmphed and struggled in vain to break free of her strong giantess embrace, her firm muffling silencing giantess mouth-hold.

It was a few days later that Todd met his first male giant. He was out for a walk with Ashedra, her huge left hand kept clamped over his mouth as usual. It was a path Todd hadn't been on before. And around the bend ahead of them came a young man, a giant, twelve or thirteen feet tall...

Todd would have cried out in surprise if Ashedra's hand hadn't been tight-squeezed over his mouth. A male among the giants! But then came a shock, an even greater surprise, as a young woman, a giantess, came around the curve behind the giant...

And if he was twelve or thirteen feet tall, the giantess coming up behind him was a good 25 feet tall. Twice as tall as any natives of this world Todd had seen so far! The 25 foot tall giantess came up behind the male giant, and she clamped her incredibly gigantic hand tight over his mouth and nose, tight! And the giant mmmmphed and squirmed, he reached up and futilely tugged at the mammoth hand of the beautiful young giantess twice his height who was keeping him handgagged...

Ashedra, holding Todd's mouth, stopped and chatted for a while with the 25 foot giantess as she kept her hand fastened hard over the mouth and nose of the twelve or thirteen foot male giant. The 25 foot giantess boomed in big loud alto tones. The giant went "mmmmmmmhhh, mmmmm hhhhhhmmm!" from beneath her immense hand which must have been a good two and a half feet long.

It turned out there were a couple of 25 foot giantesses living in the area, and they had male giants half their height whom they owned and handgagged! Todd began to get the picture. The more numerous 12 or 13 foot giantesses cherished the little people who had come through the portal from earth, because now they too could own... pets? toys? living dolls? half their height, to hold and to handgag.

It still didn't make sense. But Todd was beginning to get more of the picture.

The days grew shorter and cooler. The shocks piled up in the field as the grain harvested itself. One day the giantesses began packing and preparing for a journey. Ashedra readied her big oxcart, a two-wheeled oxcart drawn by a huge critter that she brought up from the meadows on the other side of the mountain. Think of a water buffalo, twice life size -- Todd wanted to stay far way from that thing! But it was tame enough. The giantesses set out in huge oxcarts, and Ashedra occupied herself along the way by holding Todd on her lap in the oxcart, holding him and holding her placemat-huge hand over his mouth by the hour as they journeyed.

Up into the mountains, to a high and remote plateau... Todd stood there in front of Ashedra, with both of the giantess's immense hands tightclamped over his mouth, as all of the giantesses gathered, and three earthenwork rings were constructed, and three giantesses stripped and lay down, curled up, each within an earthenwork ring. Todd saw others from earth, standing by like him, standing by and watching with their mouths held tight in the hands of the giantesses who now owned them... Cauldrons were set up, fires lit beneath them, water fetched from a brook, boiled and mixed with various ingredients... Todd watched, and he found that Ashedra was clamping her huge hands even tighter, tighter over his mouth, as the contents of the cauldrons were allowed to cool, and poured into the earthenwork rings, poured viscous and sticky over the giantesses within.

Then the earthenwork was covered over on top, covered over into earth mounds, covered over into earthen howes, with the three giantesses buried inside.

For ten days there were games and contests, giantesses taking turns holding and mouth-holding their diminutive possessions. Todd was a touch nervous about all the various giantesses who took him and held his mouth. Ashedra he knew; but he didn't know these other giantesses that well. Scariest was when a 25 foot giantess picked Todd up like a kitten, and held him in her arms, and then she completely enwrapped his head in her huge soft warm quadruple-large steely-strong hand, her huge 25 foot giantess hand folded around his head tight like a girl wrapping her big hand firmly around a tennis ball.

Todd noticed that the earthen howes gave off heat, they were warm, you could feel the heat from twenty feet away. Like earthen ovens! At the end of the ten days the giantesses broke open the three earthen howes...

The three giantesses within emerged, now grown to 25 foot giantesses. They had been twelve or thirteen feet tall, now they were 25 feet tall. Gaunt and thin, they were clothed in new clothing fitted to their height, and fed ravenously on mounds of food provided for them. One of the new 25 foot giantesses insisted on taking Todd in her arms, and holding him with both of her newly-enlarged giantess hands clamped tight all the way around his head. "Mmmmmmmmhhh!! Mmmmmmmmmmh! Hhmmmmm, wwwmmmmm mmmmmmmhhh!" Todd made muffled noises, he reached up and pawed and pounded on her huge head-enfolding hands, but it was no use. When a 25 foot giantess is holding your face tight in her hands, you may as well give it up, because you're never going to get away from her, not even if you struggle and wrestle against her wildly with every last ounce of your strength!

Giantesses doused with liquid concoctions, buried in earthen howes, emerging at twice their previous height... Todd couldn't figure. Was this low tech but highly sophisticated chemistry? Nanotechnology? More puzzle pieces...

Now the giantesses retraced their steps down out of the mountains, and turned their oxcarts onto another path which led them on day after day. Ashedra in her oxcart clung to Todd, she held him now this way, now that way, always holding his mouth tight in the warm soft palm of her powerful hand. Todd and the others from earth rarely got a chance to exchange a word with one another, so incessantly did their giantess owners keep them handgagged along the way.

At last their oxcart caravan emerged into a broad river valley, flanked by high mountains on either side. Down a grey wooden road, and there up the valley... a huge gathering, this looked like a gathering of many, many groups of giantesses! Countless giantess communities, all come together here in this valley for a grand celebration! The oxcarts from Ashedra's community rolled into the midst of the gathering horde, tents pitched right and left in numberless profusion...

Ashedra kept one hand fastened tight over Todd's mouth and nose as she greeted giantesses from other communities, greeting them like old long lost friends, greeting them and showing off handgagged Todd to them with considerable pride. Sometimes these other giantesses wanted to hold Todd's mouth, and Ashedra let them. "Mmmmmmmmhhhh!" They all seemed to like it when Todd made stifled noises, and twisted and struggled against them. Todd quickly gathered that nobody outside Ashedra's community had ever seen anything like Todd and the other little people from earth.

Todd's head spun as now this giantess, now that giantess, took turns holding the mouth of a novelty like him. And Todd's head spun as he looked around him, at all the giantesses come together for this grand celebration... Here were not only the 12 and 13 foot giantesses, and the 25 foot giantesses handgagging 12 or 13 foot male giants. Here also Todd saw giantesses 50 feet tall, towering head and shoulders above groves of old-growth trees, and holding their door-sized hands over the mouths of 25 foot tall male giants. Todd saw several 100 foot tall giantesses, impossibly tall, and handgagging male giants who stood 50 feet tall.

In fact... over in that cloud bank, covering the side of yon mountain... was it for real, or was it a shadow projected onto the clouds by the setting tangerine sun? Over in that cloud bank Todd beheld the silhouette of a giantess several hundred feet tall, hand-silencing a male giant half her height...

"Mmmmmmh, mmmmmm'wwwwmmm mmmmmhhh! MMMMMMMMMHHH!" Todd tried to scream with Ashedra's gigantic smooth hand tight-clamped over his mouth. Ideas tumbled through his mind, incredible racing thoughts... They'll all want to hold us little people... They phased out natural reproduction long ago... replaced it with something involving gigantism... Hierarchy of height, hierarchy of mouth holding domination... Primitive looking but extremely sophisticated science, look at those fields that harvest themselves, wooden roads, houses that build themselves... This gathering, a potlatch of height? Potlatch, no, that's not quite it either...

Too many puzzle pieces, and they didn't fit together.

Then Todd screamed in meaningless muffled tones, as Ashedra looked up and greeted a 50 foot giantess. The 50 foot giantess, taller than an old oak tree, looked delighted as she sighted Todd, as if "Oh, isn't he cute?!", and she was reaching down toward Todd to pick him up, with her big smooth steampress-powerful hands, hands almost as long as Todd was tall.

"MMMMMMMMMMMHHHHHH!! MMMMMMMMHHHH!!! MMMMMMMMMMMMMMHH!!!" Todd screamed and screamed from behind Ashedra's hand. Then twelve foot six Ashedra released him into the horrifically large hands of a giantess four times her height.