Stone Giant

By Theodore A Henning II

STONE GIANT is a story about a young woman's quest for truth. Amidst feelings of rejection, shunned by the young clan males, nineteen year old Kassi Margani is challenged to believe in the unbelievable. There are puzzling questions about her family history she believes can only be reconciled by climbing the mystical mountain. It is up there on Wondiboi Mountain that her quest to find answers brings about a life-changing experience. Could a race of giants, both human and reptile, have truly existed where they now live? Is it possible some remnant is still with us? What Kassi encounters is both terrifying and reassuring. What should she really believe?

• Language: English
• Publisher: Theodore A Henning II
• Release date: Jul 30, 2014
• ISBN: 9781311269409

Theodore A Henning II

My heart goes out to people with maladies of the spirit and mind. Their pain goes unnoticed in our world of iPhones, Apps and pads. I have been humbled, having lived with the poorest of the poor. And I have never met a rich man who didn't need Jesus. Such moves me. Everyone needs to express themselves, if for nothing more than to banter to the void. We get to, you know, 'cause we're barely above the animals. Some are better at it than others. I don't try to be profound in my writing. Simplicity holds a key. So, rather than plunder the depths of wisdom and insight, I write of that which inspires me. May there always be greatness in the person next to me.

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STONE GIANT

A young woman’s quest for truth!

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Table of Contents

Prologue

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

Author’s End Note

Limited Pronunciation Key

Storyline

STONE GIANT is a story of a young woman’s quest for truth. Amidst feelings of rejection, shunned by the young clan males, nineteen year old Kassi Margani is challenged to believe in the unbelievable. There are puzzling questions about her family history she believes can only be reconciled by climbing the mystical mountain. It is up there on Wondiboi Mountain that her quest to find answers brings about a life-changing experience. Could a race of giants, both human and reptile, have truly existed where they now live? Is it possible some remnant is still with us? What Kassi encounters is both terrifying and reassuring. What should she really believe?

Prologue

Kassi Margani, of the Margani clan of Wamesa people, had dropped the machete she had been using to hack away impeding jungle growth that got in her way. Then she had quickly sank to the damp ground like a lead weight on a fishing line. All this happened in the blink of an eye. She should have been feeling a measure of exhaustion. Instead, a knife-like stabbing pain in her left foot became less noticeable as growing nausea made her gag, and she wished it would go away.

Her climb up the mystical mountain had proved more challenging than she had expected. It is a place she should not have gone, alone. Her mother had warned her, had even tried to stop her. Yet, Kassi was too headstrong to be dissuaded once she made up her mind. After all, it was her quest.

Kassi’s jungle home is an airy stilt house situated along the beautiful salt water of Wandamen Bay, in the ‘Bird’s Head’ region of western New Guinea. And right there in her backyard stood that mysterious Wondiboi Mountain, which she had just climbed barefooted!

Now, as she lay on her back on the moist, jungle detrimis, she really didn’t feel anything, except sick to her stomach. Kassi lay without pain, mesmerized as she gazed up at the underside of the profuse jungle canopy that seemed to sway back and forth as if caught in a summer’s breeze.

Kassi repeatedly closed and opened her eyes trying to lessen the nauseous sensation she felt. When open, thin rainbow-drenched rays of colored light passed through the entangled upper branches and flickered from one side of her peripheral vision to the other. It felt like an out-of-body experience.

As the dew of the jungle forest evaporated, it created a cloud-like vapor ever ethereal, and most enchanting. Visual clarity blurred as everything around her morphed into one gigantic psychedelic swirl, tunnel-like in form. So this is what it feels like to die, Kassi thought to herself.

She found her world spinning and twirling and gyrating all at the same time. The dizziness she felt in her head was not unlike the light-headedness she felt when she danced the barengen, except dancing didn’t make her want to puke!

The constant nausea almost caused