It hadbeen years since the first giant appeared. No one was still sure how or why ithad happened. One day some guy just started growing and growing, and by thetime he had stopped he towered over the wreckage of what was once his home.Since then a few other cases had popped up here and there; some woman inWyoming, a guy in Japan, a few people scattered across China, and so on. Therewas some panic when the first case was announced. People were calling it a signof the apocalypse. There were people claiming that those who grew were chosenby some unseen force. Cults formed to worship the giants as messengers of thegods, but at the same time other religions publicly condemned the giants asfalse idols. Over time, as is the case in most things, people just sort of gotover it. Nowadayseveryone knows about the giants, but life goes on much the same as it ever had.For Devin, it hardly mattered one way or the other. He had been a child whenthe first giant had arisen, and now that he was a freshman in college, he couldhardly remember a time where the world didnt have giants in it. It didnt makeany difference to him though. They were so rare and so few and far between thathe had never seen one before not a real one anyway. As far as he wasconcerned that forty foot titan he had seen on TV marching with the rest of thepeople in the Macys Day Parade was just as fake as the titanic lizard he hadwatched demolish Tokyo in those old movies. In the area he lived in, giants justwerent a thing.
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