As the pizza slice settled back onto the plate, Dylan exhaled, his tiny body slick with tomato sauce. He wiped his face, muttering, “That was too damn close.” Crouched behind a crust ridge, he watched James, the 6.5-foot giant, sprawl across the couch, one hand lazily scrolling through his phone, the other resting on his stomach. James’s dark eyes were locked on the screen, oblivious to the tiny scavenger on the coffee table.
“Gotta move before he gets hungry again,” Dylan whispered, gripping his pen-cap spear. He eyed the thread still hooked around a splinter on the table leg—his ticket down. The pizza’s greasy glow tempted him to stay, but survival trumped hunger. “You’re a big, clueless bastard, James, but I’m not sticking around to test my luck.”
Dylan crept to the plate’s edge, boots slipping in grease. “Stay distracted, you oaf,” he hissed, glancing at James’s chuckling form. The giant’s deep laugh rumbled like a quake, but his focus stayed on the phone. Dylan tested the thread, ready to rappel, when a new sound froze him—a key scraping in the front door’s lock.
The door swung open, and in lumbered a new giant, a hulking figure Dylan hadn’t seen before. This wasn’t James’s lean, distracted bulk or Theo’s wiry frame from earlier glimpses. This guy was massive, chubby, with a backpack slung over one shoulder. His hairy legs, thick as tree trunks, poked out from loose shorts, the dark fur curling down to his ankles. Dylan squinted, catching the name “Tim” stitched on the backpack as the giant trudged toward a bedroom door, his steps shaking the floor. Tim’s face was obscured, but his sheer size and the coarse hair on his legs sent Dylan’s curiosity spiking. Tim vanished into his room, the door clicking shut, leaving Dylan staring.
“Who the hell’s that guy?” Dylan muttered, intrigued despite himself. “Looks like a damn bear.” The table felt exposed now, with James still on the couch and Tim’s presence adding a new variable.
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