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Milly is a giantess living north-west of the ruins of Ur-Sagol. She's beautiful, with her smooth milky coffee skin, glossy long dark hair, slender figure, and sweet smile. She usually wears light clothing.

Milly does not come from Felarya, and avoids talking about her original homeland. She appears to feel mildly nostalgic about it, though not sufficiently to return; she has made Felarya her home, and is happy there. She lives in a large hut in the Felaryan jungle, sparsely furnished but comfortable. Directly beneath her home is a wide network of underground tunnels and homes inhabited by the Alsumi people, a tribe of Tomthumbs who are under Milly's special protection.

Like many giantesses, Milly is a very dangerous predator. However, her behaviour towards her prey is, in some ways, quite different to that of other Felaryan predators. Although she believes it's normal and natural to eat humans, and she views them as food first and foremost, she is also interested in them as individuals, and likes to engage in polite conversation with them before eating them. (That is, unless she's particularly hungry, in which case she will eat her prey immediately, without talking to them.) She hopes to get them to talk about themselves, and to tell her about their lives. Her behaviour towards her prey is friendly and kind, almost apologetic. If she is keeping prey in her cage, she will try to make sure they are comfortable, and she will be a good hostess.

This sometimes leads humans to think that they can talk their way out of being eaten, by showing Milly that they're people, not food, and by appealing to her empathy, kindness or pity. This does not work. Milly will be kind and gentle to humans, but she will eat them in the end. That's what they're there for; they're food. From her perspective, it would be strange and silly not to eat them. She will never feel guilty about eating someone who's just told her the story of his life, although she'll be happy and grateful to have heard it.

Thus, a human's hopes of survival after being caught by Milly are very slim indeed. Even if she's already full, there's a strong risk that she will simply take you home and put you in her cage, so that she can eat you when she's hungry again. If you're carrying books with you, and you give them to her freely before she takes them off you, she may let you go. Or she may accept the books and then eat you anyway. The only human who is known to have survived being captured by Milly is a man called Isham, a writer. Milly spared him on the condition that he would come and live in her cage, and write stories for her. She also once decided to spare a man whose singing was particularly beautiful, but then she swallowed him by accident... If you're going to try and persuade Milly not to eat you, it's a good idea to do so before you're in her mouth !

It's also interesting to note that, recently, Milly discovered herself a big liking for chocolate.

Milly is a giantess. She stands close to 32 metres tall, with smooth milky coffee skin, glossy long dark hair, and dark brown eyes. She has a pleasant, friendly disposition, with an easy smile.

She was born and raised on another world, in a community of giants living in a 'village' of sparsely scattered stone homes, amidst lush clustered hills of verdant grasses. The world's sky was mostly white, given an orange tint by the orange-yellow sun. Milly was the second of three children, with an older sister (Tsheya) and a younger brother (Wem). She had a happy, fairly simple childhood, running and playing in the hills and nearby stream.

The village tradition was for most young people to leave upon reaching adulthood, to as to limit the growth of the community, and not overexploit ressources. The world was vast, with many lands still unoccupied by giants, ideal for the settling of new communities. Tsheya left first, and Milly followed some time later, separately, travelling for a while and eventually moving off-world, and arriving in Felarya. She wandered Central Felarya for a time, before finally building herself a permanent dwelling, a hut established north-west of Ur-Sagol, and south-east of Felarya's main beach. She has been living in Felarya for many years now, and considers it home.

She had not been in her hut long when a tribe of opportunistic Tomthumbs, the Alsumi, began digging tunnels beneath it, carving out chambers in the earth for their homes, reasoning that predators would have greater difficulty reaching them here. Upon noticing them, Milly struck up a conversation with them, conversed with their leaders, and rapidly established friendly relations. She was quite happy to let them live beneath her hut, and to protect them, an arrangement which enabled them to flourish with greater safety than they had ever experienced. Relations have remained warm, and Milly has befriended several of the tomthumbs in particular; she still regards Tina, an uncommonly bold member of the tribe, as her closest friend.

Milly had been brought up to eat humans, and naturally continued to do so in Felarya. Never an exceptional huntress, she often found it easier to catch lost and bewildered humans rather than animals who had adapted to survive in Felarya, their more sharply honed instincts enabling them to evade her. For security against days when the hunt was poor, she built cages within which to store captured prey (human or otherwise).

Her attitude to clothing was also a continuation of the habits of her homeworld. Unlike most giant Felaryan predators, she wears clothes most of the time – to a large extent because they feel comfortable and she's always done so. But she is not shy about being seen naked, and usually doesn't bother to get dressed before strolling out in the morning for a wash.

Her hut is another way in which she stands out from Felaryan natives. Having been brought up in a simple but enclosed house, she feels more comfortable sleeping indoors, with a roof over her head, than out. Her hut contains a simple bed, table and chairs, and shelves, upon which she stacks any objects of interest which she finds in the jungle or takes from her prey. For the most part, these are books, conviently increased to giant size for her by friendly fairies. She is an avid reader, and an eager collector of books and stories.

Her behaviour towards humans and similar edible species is also one which other predators find unusual. Rather than treat them solely as food, she has long recognised that they often have interesting things to say about themselves. She tries, quite sincerely, to reassure them before eating them, and get them to talk to her. When she was still using the cage, she would try her best to make her captives comfortable and be –as she put it– a good hostess. This was both out of a genuine sense of sympathy (which did not, however, prevent her from eating them), and in the hopes that they would start telling her about themselves, or anything interesting they might know. Humans' general unwillingness to engage in friendly conversation with a giantess intending to eat them has been a long-standing source of frustration for her.

Fairly recently, Milly captured a human called Isham, and spared him on account of his being a story-writer. She kept him captive at first, expecting him to write and tell stories for her. Their relationship evolved, very gradually, in a complex and often conflictual manner, from captor and prisoner to an odd form of friendship. Horrified by her eating habits, for which he berated her firmly, Isham nonetheless recognised a certain inherent gentleness to the giantess' nature, and found, troubled, that he could not view her simply as a monster. After one particularly bitter argument, over her putting humans in the same cage as him and then eating them, they came to an understanding of sorts, which blossomed slowly into a tentative mutual liking. Milly ceased to use the cage to store captive humans, and told Isham he should no longer consider himself a prisoner. Released from the cage, he chose to stay in Milly's hut, and continue to write stories for her, freely. Their relationship, after that, was one of genuine friendship, marred by occasional tension. Eventually, Isham decided he could not live with a man-eater, and moved permanently to Safe Harbour. He and Milly still visit each other regularly, and remain good friends, despite their disagreements.

At Isham's suggestion, she has begun a vegetable garden behind her hut. She spends quite a bit of time in it, having taken to it with a certain enthusiasm. Isham's intention was for it to help wean her off sentient food; she sees it, rather, as a convenience which occasionally spares her from the bother of hunting and gathering. In addition, she has obtained advice and training from Jade in hunting a larger variety of animals, and finding a greater variety of nutritious, edible plants. Though she still eats humans when it's convenient to do so –and because she likes their taste–, she has developed a far more varied diet with Jade's help.

Having once come across large quantities of chocolate, Milly developed a keen liking for it, and quietly yearns to find some again one day. She believes chocolate-dipped elves would be the greatest delicacy imaginable.

She has, recently, begun a relationship with a male fairy called Yemic, who has been staying at her hut.

Milly is fundamentally kind-natured. She is rather sensitive, and in turn does not like upsetting people. This includes prey, whom she will try to comfort if they cry. She tries to avoid arguments, and will often walk out on them or simply get flustered. She assumes the best in people she has just met, and treats them in a friendly manner until and unless they prove to be unpleasant. There is, however, a certain selfishness to her, as she has shied away from confronting the contradiction in behaving nicely to her prey and then ultimately eating them.

• Milly belongs to French-snack.

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