I continued smiling, as I looked up at our formerly traitorous guide, who seemed to be the ringleader of the group. He had draped the central crystal of the Orlanis Star as a necklace about his neck.
Speaking loud enough for my voice to carry up to their lofty heights I said, "You're not taking another step to stop these people from experiencing their freedom gifted to them from the God of heaven and earth."
The giants looked among themselves and abruptly began to laugh so hard that it shook the air. Their leader boomed out with cruel mirth, "And who is going to stop us? You?"
"No, not me. In defiance of the natural order of creation you were made by those who fell from the heavens, who forsook their seats of righteous honor bestowed upon them by the Master of all creation. By the Creator's hand you will be blotted out once again even as your kind was in the past."
"Blot us out! You are mad puny human to think to overcome us! We have the strength of god's and knowledge so infinite that your weak minds could never grasp a hold of it! We are superior in every way to you! We are the new order of the day and there will be none to stop us! We will leave this prison and reenter the world above and increase in number once again, until we overrun the planet and have consumed all of humanity, even as we corrupt them with the temptation of dark knowledge as in the days of old. We are the Rephaim, the seed of old, and our hunger for revenge has never been greater!"
"And yet I say unto you that you will be driven out as your kind was driven out of the Promise Land. God uses the weak things to confound the mighty and those who think themselves wise. The beginning of wisdom is to fear God, and yet you mock His Divine Authority. Even as you are proud and of a haughty spirit so you will be cast down to suffer an eternal ruin without any hope of a resurrection. Behold you are dead and you shall not rise!"
The giants roared in a display of hellish hatred as all mirth at my direct confrontation of them was gone.
The leader spoke, as he took a big step forward toward me, "It's time that I feasted on your impudence little man!"
A shadow fell over the beach obscuring the orangey glow of the overhead shifting clouds for a moment. Everyone looked up to see a dark moving cloud that buzzed. Hornets. Seemingly millions upon millions of them.