They followed Grim to the base of an ancient ruined castle, where shattered pillars and broken gargoyles lay scattered about the courtyard. Bones littered the area as well, poking up through the snow. Puck trailed behind, not speaking to any of them, wrapped in angry silence.
"There, Grimalkin said, nodding to a large stone pillar broken in to. One half rested on the other, forming an arch between them.
There was something else, though.
There was a body lying in front of it. A body that was at least twelve feet tall, covered in hides and furs, with blue-white skin and a tangled white beard. It lay sprawled on its back with its face turned away, one meaty hand clutching a stone club

Ash grimaced. "That's right," he muttered. "Mab leaves her pet giant here to guard the place. Cold Tom doesn't listen to anyone but the queen."

She stays silent.

(Remind me of the nicer Giant's name?)

She frowns, she wishes she could befriend it as she did with the ogre.

(Grumly?)

Puck, his animosity either forgotten or suppressed, peeked out from behind a boulder. "Looks like it's Tom's nappy time," he said. "Maybe we can sneak around him."
Grim regarded each of them in turn and blinked slowly. "In times like these, I am even more grateful that I am a cat." He sighed and trotted toward the huge body.

"Should he wake, I can easily tie him down, cutting off his air supply quickly." She says, examining the large giant.

Grim sauntered up to the giant, looking like a fuzzy mouse compared to Tom's bulk. Gazing up at the body, he twitched his tail, crouched, and leaped onto the giant's chest. Perhaps Grimalkin was too light for him to even notice. The cat turned and sat down, curling his tail around his feet and watching us bemusedly. "Dead," he called to them. "Quite dead in fact. You can stop cringing in abject terror if you like. I swear, how you survive with noses like that, I will never know. I could smell his stink a mile away."

"He's dead?" Ash immediately walked forward, brows furrowing. "Strange. Cold Tom was one of the strongest in his clan. How did he die?"

Grim yawned. "Perhaps he ate something that disagreed with him."

"Is this where you have been disappearing off to?" She asks, stepping forward and nudging the giant with her foot.

"Why would I keep coming back here?" Grimalkin asked flatly.

And then, a metal spider crawled out of Cold Tom's mouth. The huge arachnid skittered away, over Tom's face and up a wall. Ash drew his sword but Puck gave a shout and hurled a rock at it. The stone hit the spider dead on; with a flash of sparks the bug plummeted to the ground, landing with a metallic clink on the flagstones.

She suddenly bursts out laughing, looking right at Ash. "You think you'd need a sword to finish off one small metallic bug?!" She giggles.

(Should she, or should she not snort cutely??? :p Decisions, decisions.)

(That's a toughie...)

The boys approached it cautiously, Ash with his sword still drawn, Puck with a good sized rock. The insect thing lay broken and motionless on the ground, almost smashed in two. Up close, it looked less spidery and more like those face hugger things from Aliens, except it was made of metal.

(Oh yeah I'm pretty sure I mentioned this earlier but metal burns regular fey. Lin is immune to it, though, since she's half human *Facepalms* I have the memory of a goldfish)