He was huge.
I don't mean just his cock, which was also huge. The whole of him was huge. He was a literal giant, his kneecaps level with my face, and I was one of the tallest women in the village.
Although, to be honest, it wasn't his kneecaps that fascinated me. He was quite naked as he strode into the village, the ground echoing his footsteps, and swinging limply in front of him was a cock of phenomenal size, and a huge hairy scrotum that, as far as I could see, contained three huge balls, each the size of my head.
I was a virgin, having been guarded all my life, when all my friends had found husbands and who now had children running around. Why I wasn't married yet, I didn't understand. I wasn't unattractive, I knew how to keep house, and there were young men in the village in need of a wife.
"When, Mama?" I had cried, over and over. "When will I be married?"
"Soon," she would reply. "Soon."
Even if I'd dared to sneak away from the house, I could not have endangered my virginity. From an early age I was forced to wear a chastity device that denied even my fingers access to my womanhood. None of my friends had endured such an indignity.
I had, on occasion, glimpsed my father's manhood, and my brothers' too when they were younger, but that was the limits of my knowledge of such things, until the day the giant strode into our village.
I stood gaping up at him - and at it - as he came to a stop in front of me, looking down with his large, curious eyes.
I was, naturally, terrified. And also confused and feeling very betrayed. "I'm sorry," my father had said that morning, "but we have no choice. We always knew this day would come." Somewhere in the distance, my mother wailed.
"What's going on?" I'd asked, but my brothers held me still as my father stripped me of my clothes and unlocked the chastity device. As if that hadn't been humiliating enough, they'd marched me out into the village square and tied me to a pole. There were people peeking at me through all the windows.
"Today you meet your husband," my father said. "Do not anger him, or we all will suffer."
And then they too were gone, leaving me alone and helpless. I wept and cried for help, but my tears went unanswered.
Until the giant stood before me, and I understood that this was to be my husband. They had prepared me all my life, and kept me pure, as an offering, a sacrifice, to this giant.
He broke the ropes that bound me, tossed me over his shoulder like a sack of grain, and marched off out of the village again. Very soon, even the sound of my mother's wailing faded into nothing.
*
I was set down in a glade by a river that cascaded down a steep valley to a pond a short distance away. Overlooking the glade was a dwelling that was part-cave, part a fortress built of rough-hewn bricks that no human could have lifted. The giant's home, no doubt, for its windows were enormous, and its door too.
Two women stood in the doorway. Both were clad in leather and fur. One was similar in age to my mother, and the other could easily have been her mother. The younger one ran out to meet me as the giant strode in through the door.
"Welcome," she said. "Don't be afraid." Her accent was strange, but I understood her well enough. Her eyes were kind, and her smile warm, and for the first time that day I dared to hope - though for what, I had no idea. "What did they tell you about him?"
"Nothing," I said. "Except that he is supposed to be my husband."
She laughed. "Well, I don't know about 'husband' exactly. We serve him, and he provides for us. It's hard work, and a little lonely, but it can also be fun if you let it. My name's Kali."
"Affari," I said.
"I had a cousin by that name," Kali said. "Come, Affari. I'll show you around."
The elderly woman watching us from the doorway examined me with a critical eye. "You're a pretty thing," she said. "I hope you're a hard worker too."
"Hush, Barraneth," Kali said, laughing. "Affari's frightened enough as it is. We don't want her running away before she's even got here."
"Aye, well, but his lordship's got that same gleam in his eye he had when he brought you here."
"I'm sure he had it too with you." Kali turned to me. "It would have happened sooner or later, and now's as good a time as any."
"What?" I asked anxiously.
"The giant's the last of his kind. He had a wife, once upon a time, but some knight in shining armour went and killed her for no good reason. Naturally he got upset and started burning all the villages down, until someone got the bright idea of offering him a replacement."
"A wife?"
"Sort of. We can't exactly do what a wife's supposed to do, but we keep him company and look after him as best we can. Anyway, once in a generation, the villages choose one girl for him. She has to be pretty, and she has to be a virgin. You are a virgin, aren't you?"
I nodded.