Anna Lyste was hard at work at Shrinks For Giants, with an earthling
Whose desire for more excitement in his life was quickly hurtling
For depression he could not stave off. He opened up his soul,
Baring all the facts of emptiness, describing every hole.
Anna didnt have the answers to the way he made each fact sound,
As she listened to the details of his most unlikely background:
He was Skee, a wealthy 13 year old Viking boy, whod come
To the giant world, inheritor of quite a hefty sum.
Hed inherited from parents, who had died when he was seven.
Now they slept beneath the ground, awaiting living space in heaven.
He had used his massive fortune, so that he could gratify
All the whims that people dreamed of as they struggled to get by.
When hed sampled every thrill on earth, he wondered where his fright went,
Since he had the keys to every door, except some real excitement.
Then hed met with Ambloome, while shed visited her husbands home.
When she heard of his great acidy, she said, Youll be a gnome.
I could take you to a place where youd be tiny like a fairy.
You could live with earthlings, and some giants, though they wont be scary.
You can have adventures, if you choose, and be a colonist.
He had tried it for a while, and then consulted Anna Lyste.
Hed exhausted all the means of seeking thrills on his own Terra,
From the snow, to depths of oceans, from New York onto Sierra,
And then done the same on Ambloomes world (the bonus chance hed scored).
At this point young Skee had tried it all. So now he just felt bored.
She suggested the dimension cure her husband had provided
Once for Eustace, but he said, though it was not to be derided,
It would only be the same again, on parallels as such.
As excitement goes, I really dont think that would lend me much.
If my husbands Type Two Amulets had Ambloomes own ones power
To traverse the course of time, youd have the greatest means to scour
Any times in past or future, which may satisfy your will
For encountering the means to find a brand new kind of thrill.
That was Anna Lystes new theory. Skee was so enthusiastic,
That she thought of something else, though it would call for something drastic.
She suggested that a means to reach the future could be tried,
If the aim of such an exercise could yet be modified.
Shed been treating someone (Alysonne), whod used a means of freezing,
To suspend her age for decades. Then shed found the outcome pleasing.
Anna said she could request that Alysonne start freezing Skee,
Though theyd never know when someone else would come to set him free.
Thats excitement of the greatest kind! Skee found himself exclaiming,
Id be gambling on the time that Id wake up: the best of gaming.
When and if someone discovered me and took the chance to thaw,
I could face the new worlds challenges, returning nevermore.
Author's Chapter Notes:
Anna Lyste's latest patient craves more excitement than the giant world can offer.