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But if you overcome these challenges and learn to see beyond the dark and dispel the mist, you will find a terrible truth: you have landed on another giant, far more vast and ancient than any you could ever have imagined. This is what the giant you yourself came from is standing on! You see others like him rooted here, some small, others bigger than even your own giant!

You may now reel with shock. Or perhaps you knew of this already, and can accept it.

So now what?

Was your grudge only with the giant you yourself started from, and jumped off of? If that is the case, then well enough: perhaps you may find fertile land here, and root yourself somewhere to the shoulders of this greater giant. You may one day grow as big as he is, and nod respectfully at him.

Or, now that you're down here, maybe you can go and strike that giant right into the roots, right into where it hurts! You may do more harm from here than from above... but the giant is still vast, and you still tiny. Perhaps if you yourself grew larger, you could meet the giant on his level, and punch him right in his stupid face.

Alternatively, perhaps your problem was with the giants as a whole, and you want to stand on the shoulders of no one at all? Or perhaps you were curious to begin with, and curious still to keep on going and see how far this can go? Then feel free to jump off again.

You should now be ready to the challenges you faced before: the voids, and the mist. You will likely find more ground – another shoulder, another forest of giants big and small. You may end up liking this giant, and root here, or you may keep on going, lower down, and then lower still.

But how low CAN you go?

One day, perhaps, you will come upon earth that simply does not end. Ground that keeps on going forever, without another cliff to jump down by. What does that mean? Does it mean that you have at last found the earth, and your quest is completed? Or does it mean that you stand on a truly primordial giant indeed, one whose girth you cannot begin to comprehend, let alone travel?

Either way, at least you've come pretty damn far down. You can look up in pride, at the feet of the giants you came from. You have likely grown up a fair bit now already, and perhaps if you keep on going, you can stand on the same level as them, and see what they see. And now you owe nothing to no one.

Or maybe you'd rather grab an axe and chop the whole fucker down. Your choice.