Very well done sir!

Thanks very much!

Oh hell I almost forgot to post my thoughts on this!

I really enjoyed it, Spyk! Its super nice to see you writing again, especially when Petra is involved. She is such a fun character to watch, especially in such an interesting era.

If I had to complain, I would say there is not enough macro gargoyle shenanigans! What you have is awesome, but I still think there could have been more.

Regardless, this was a fun little romp and a very good quick read!

It felt good to write something again, even if it's just a quick, silly thing! Likely going to be a while before I produce anything again, at the very least not until the schoolyear ends! Damn midterms and research papers and finals and crap in the way!

I know...not nearly enough gargoyle gal! Next story I'll try not be rushing myself to finish within the day and take my time! Hopefully it'll be less than a year before that happens!

Hmm... not sure how good I am at providing critique but I'll give it a shot! Earlier on in the story I especially liked the descriptions and setting the scene. Dark skies, thunder rumbling, jangling of armor; good stuff to appeal to auditory and visual senses. Couldn't hurt to expand on the other senses a little bit later on like say the feeling of the water pelting and growing Petra's form. Petra's stony flesh softening as she was all growy was a good case, for example! That and did like how Petra's size was always in relation to her environment. No numbers tossed out, it was always in terms of how small people were compared to her or the impacts she was having on her surroundings.

All that aside, I liked Petra's accent! And her teasing and bigness, no denying that. Twas a short and sweet bout of growy gargoygle goodness, Spykr!

Thank you very much for the spot of critique! I did try to add in some stuff about rain splashing off of Petra, but I took it out with the intention of writing it in a better way, and then totally forgot to put it back in until I'd already posted this and...too lazy to re-write! As much as I personally love to geek about the numbers and numeric descriptors of a macro character...they don't function well in a story setting, and really can't give the reader the same kind of sense of scale to the character as giving something more concrete and "real", like a part of the environment, does!

I'm kind of a sucker for goofy, over-the-top accents! They make me smile so! Glad you enjoyed hers too!

Stupidly late, but, good work! Petra clearly seems to enjoy my favorite approach to problem solving, growtimidation with a streak of loomage. I do still love how she gets softer as she grows larger :D

Also stupidly late, but, a couple grammar notes! Third paragraph, “I wish that were able to say to truthfully, M’lord." And fourth, "I want every man of fighting age with to have a sword in his hand and a helm upon his head." Pretty good besides that!

I had a feeling you would! Growthtimidation is one of her specialities!

Stupidly late or not, I can't believe I (and the two other folks I had proof read it with me) missed those for THREE MONTHS! Thank you very much for pointing those out!

Hey, I liked it. :D Thought it was a bit hard to get a handle on how big the gargoyle was at various stages through the story, though. I think it'd be helpful to establish that better in the mind of the viewer with comparisons, if not outright stating it.

Thank you!

I don't like to state direct, numerical size if I can avoid it. Especially in a story stetting like this one, I feel it breaks the flow of things, whereas environmental comparison makes more sense thematically. That said, I do agree with you that the descriptions of her size are a little bit vague in the story; "Bigger than a House!" is all well and good, but who is to say how big a house is in this context?

I feel you, but as you said yourself, you need to establish *some* sort of baseline. I had trouble picturing it, at least.

They picked the wrong castle, alright! They're lucky Petra didn't just squish/eat them all outright.
On that note, will we see Petra go on a proper rampage?

I wouldn't exactly call the invading army "lucky" as it were, but they were at no risk of becoming brunch; rocks, even magic ones that can walk, talk, and outgrow the kingdom, do not eat!

Petra may not be exactly gentle, but she is far from a bringerbof calculated destruction. She's certainly not low impact by any means, but a rampage is not in the cards for her.

Glad you enjoyed the story and took a liking to the character though!

Oh well, she's still cool.

You're welcome; this was just great!

No eating...but she'd still stomp/sit on them, I presume?