“What are you?”
Scott freezes at the question. The same one he’s heard countless of times in different stories. One’s that all ended the same way no matter who told it.
And with how the voice sounded like thunder, there’s no denying he’s been found. By a human.
The young borrower doesn’t even look behind him. Instead he desperately tries to pull his arm out of the knot his thread made around it. Shrieks in terror and pain when it only makes it tighten around his wrist more. But he can’t think of anything else to do, he has to get away he’s been seen the human is gong to kill him!
“Ooh, that ain’t pretty.”
The human sounds a lot closer, and just to prove it, the ground suddenly jumps.
Scott can’t help himself. He sends a look over his shoulder. Doesn’t dare breathe when he comes face to face with a shoe. A massive one. With strings he could use for rope that would be better than the thread he uses to climb. At least those are thick enough they won’t wrap around his arm and make it feel like it’ll be cut off at any moment.
But he could never take those strings. He’ll never get the chance to. Because any moment now and the shoe is going to crush him.
Panic has Scott yanking his arm again, yelling in pain when his thread only tightens more. And now it’s bright red, and his hand is going numb.
“Alright, just calm down little guy,” the human thunders. “Keep pullin’ like that and you’re gonna lose your arm.”
Terror keeps the borrower frozen, not wanting to upset the towering being who could easily complete such a threat. Or finally stomp on him to get it over with. And he doesn’t want either to happen.
The only problem is that he gave the human the perfect chance to grab him, fingers curling around him before he realized what was happening. By the time he does, he’s pinned down to easily stop his squirming.
Scott chokes on a sob as thumb taller than him nudges his thread, a hum shaking him to the bones.
“Damn, you really tangled this up, huh?” the human muses. “Don’t worry, I’ll getchya free in no time.”
And the moment he’s free, Scott won’t even get the chance to run.
