The giants eyes flickered open. How many years had he been imprisoned in here? 5,6,7? 50? Who knows? But now he would make his comeback. But why was he down here? Then it came back to him. The battle, the fight, the humiliation. The horrible defeat when he was so close to having it all, so close to winning her heart. But the asteroid mutation that turned him into a giant. Everyone now thought he was evil. If people saw him as that what was the point of being anything else. The giant’s hand started to rise from the ground.
As I gazed up at the stars on my ceiling, a sudden thought came to me. I could fly! I would go soaring, above the clouds and be the first human to do so without an aeroplane. That night, I started working on my plan. Nothing, nothing, nothing. No way I could do it except with magic, and that didn’t exist.
As I got closer and closer to the end of high school, I started thinking less and less about it and more about aeronautics. I decided to give up on that and fly a real plane. I never stopped thinking about it. Billy looked out into the big space of nothingness. There wasn't a single thing to be seen apart from the endless array of fluffy balls of air, clouds. He had been traveling for months now and he missed being able to wake up every morning and go outside, go to school or even look outside into his back garden. He couldn't do that anymore. “One day,” he said “One day I will land this ship, house or whatever its called. I’ll see my family and run around with my friends.” Every day he would say this but it never happened.
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