Chapter 21 - It's the Little Things

At first, Kerry didn’t realize she stared at the giant ogre from the security office, because he looked nothing like himself. From a giant mountain of gray granite-like form, Paddy’s magic reduced Ruck to a small boulder of his former self. He stood barely two feet tall, his body one massive round shape with bulging biceps and thighs that resembled some sort of kid’s clay project for school rather than an actual body. How the ogre could even walk was anybody’s guess.

“Arden!” Paddy cried out as he tried to skirt past him.

Quinn, however, was quick to snatch the cluricaun’s coat by the collar before the tiny man managed to get very far. Quinn tossed the other man onto the ground, punching him in the face as Paddy fought to catch his breath.

Arden stood there, staring down at Ruck with disbelief masking his face. “Ruck? I don’t understand. You knew about this? Knew what Paddy did?”