Seems like this should be a bug

Was summoned into the same room as standing. Would think that the slave could not run as nothing changed. XXX has summoned you! Sensing your distraction, an enormous giant makes a run for it! An enormous giant stops following you. Charity Street This is a small stretch of road leading the small city square to the west, through to the perimeter of the Voralian City Gardens to the east. Thick white bricks are fitted tightly together to form the road, and extend west towards a plaza where you spy a statue of a victorious knight, beyond which you can make out West Charity Gate leading towards the bridge beyond. To the east, a wrought-iron fence marks the border of a delightful park, which you can follow to the south along Tranquility Promenade. To the north, you see a humble inn, over which hangs a wooden sign cut into the shape of a sailboat.