Chapter 1

Just like every morning for as long as she could remember, Audrey woke up with the sound of chirping birds in her ears. The 20 years old woman got lazily out of bed and looked at the world through her window. Trees in their first flowering of spring met her eyes and she saw the birds moving around each, trying to woo their partners probably. She smiled as she saw a few peoples walking in the street. Their town – their country wasn’t huge nor densely populated, but ever since she’d been a child, she had seen more and more peoples being born here, and it made her so happy.

“Audrey, you’ll be late for school!” yelled her dad from the kitchen down there.

“I’m coming dad!” she replied, rushing to get clothed and then went to eat.

She was met by her whole family down there. Both of her parents were in their late forty and it started to show. Her dad had graying hair and even her mother started to show signs of age; but they were still healthy and strong, of course. As for her siblings, the twins seemed relatively calm today. At fourteen each, the two girls had really started to try and become different, eating different stuff, doing opposite activities, etc.

Helena was a shut-in, eating very little and thus her body was lither and perhaps a tad smaller now. Sofia, to the contrary, was outgoing, sportive – perhaps even too much – and she loved to eat food which would settle on her curves. Aubrey was proud of her C-cup breasts but her little sister already boasted a D-cup and seemed very intent on going ever higher on the alphabetical order. She was eating enough for two this morning while her twin took in just enough to endure through the morning – but nobody said anything, it was perfectly normal here.

“Ready for today? They’ll be giving out the answers to your applications, right?”

“Yes” replied Audrey, feeling nervous suddenly. “Marie and Anna said they were ready to pack things up as soon as they’ll get the approval from the authorities.”

“They seem mighty sure they’ll get that” chuckled her father. “Maybe they’ll be disappointed and they’ll have to stay here.”

“I don’t know… usually, they grant those applications, right?”

“Yeah, but there is quotas. If too many of us leave this place…” said her mother, her voice trailing.

“Why would anyone want to leave?” asked the twins in unison, before looking at each other and giggling. “I mean… we’re safe here, great even!” continued Sofia.

“That’s true, but there is a whole world out there” said Audrey, almost longingly.

She hadn’t asked to leave this place; she hadn’t the courage, if she was being honest. To be thrown into a wide, unknown world of giants and all seemed just too much for her. She had always been terrified of those stories about those enormous peoples, the MAJORS. This place, one of the many reservations for minors made over the decades was her world and she felt safe here. Even if she wanted to look from the walls so to speak. That’s why she had applied for the border guard’s course at the university.

“And what a world!” huffed Helena, who looked up from her small bowl so everyone would see her scowl. “Horny giants all around, bashing each other and stuff. We’re better here!”

“You’re just jealous because they all have tits bigger than your head” laughed her twin.

“They have tits bigger than your torso, whaley” replied Helena, which turned Sofia an incredible shade of red as the two teenagers started to argue.

Audrey ate her pancake without a word. Her best friends wanted to go there, in that world of titans, but she herself had no interest in that. She wanted to meet one of those MAJORS, perhaps even those legendary CYCLOS or whatever they were called… but she didn’t want to leave the reservation proper. 90% of the minors who did never came back. Either it was because they had found a mate out there, they died or they got pregnant with a MAJORS and the policy was to preserve, as much as possible, their gene-pool from MAJOR’s influence.

Since the reservations had been set up, more than 150 years ago, at the dawn of the CYCLO age of the Matthewsons and the like, this policy had allowed minors to move away from extinction. They were far less numerous than MAJORS, of course, but at least they weren’t threatened by oblivion because a dude over two meters and a half tall wanted to have sex with three of their kind in the same night, or something like that. It was a good thing, Audrey knew this. And still, she felt somewhat stifled, as if she was in a pretty cage.

“You did apply for the border guard, right honey?” asked her mother as she gently dropped a glass of orange juice next to her older daughter.

“Yeah… And I think I managed to do good at the exams but…”

“You aced them kiddo” said her father, pointing at her with his spoon. “No false modesty here, the border guard would be dumb not to recognize that you’re the best of your year!”

Audrey fidgeted. She had never been at ease with compliment, even from her family. She knew her athletic build had allowed her to do good during the exams, and she new how to wield her hypodermic rifle and guns according to standards… but she couldn’t help but be worried. Shooting a dart at a picture of an angry MAJOR to make him fall asleep was one thing, doing so to a real one, in her mind, was something else altogether.

“Don’t worry sweetie. You’re young, even for a minor. You’ll have all the time in the world to decide what to do with your life if you aren’t selected to the border” said her mother gently as she kissed her forehead.

* * *

“Audrey Kerbrat!” called a voice and she jumped out of the chair she had been sitting and walked briskly toward the door.

It had been over an hour since she had come here, to the University. Almost all her friends had come and gone already. Marie and Anna had been elated, they’d both got to see the outside world – Anna was moving to Paris, barely four hundreds kilometers away the next week ; and two weeks later, Marie would go to Melbourne, at the other side of the world. Audrey had been super happy for them, but also a little sad – she hadn’t any other real friend here and she didn’t want to leave that little region in the center of France were local minors were sheltered…

“Thank you for being here Audrey” said one of her professor, a wry old man with a large smile and a larger mustache. “No need to be nervous I assure you.”

Professor Zitter always had the knack to calm down his students, and even today it worked. He looked at her with an amused glint in his eyes and it was enough for the young minor to feel her worries start to dissipate. On his left and right were two other peoples, whom she didn’t recognize. One seemed to wear an official pin, indicating his affiliation to the “government” of the enclave. The other was a black minor with curves which would have made Sofia sick with envy.

“Those are Martin Dubourg and Sephania Matthewson” explained her professor.

“Oh.”

She recognized the names, at the very least. Dubourg was the official liaison with the outside world, even if he rarely appeared in public inside the reservation proper. As for Sephania, her name and her proud bearing indicated that she was probably of the real deal Matthewson family. Audrey felt her nervousness return with a vengeance when she realized who would be delivering the verdict on her application. It was absolutely unheard off for such important peoples to be here!

“Don’t worry, all his fine” said the Matthewson gal, her voice powerful, confident but gentle. “In fact, it is your stellar results which have attracted my and Mr. Dubourg’s attention.”

“Indeed. You aced all your exams, physical and theoretical” said the forty something man with a slight smile. “Which has left with a conundrum we hope you’ll be able to solve.”

“Really? I, if I can be of help!” she replied too hastily, which made the three older minors smile.

“You see” started Pr. Zitter, “we have had a lot of applications for border guard this year. And in fact counting you, we are short one place and it’d break our heart to dash the hopes of one you young peoples who have succeeded.”

“Therefore, we have decided to offer you a unique opportunity. Would you agree to be applied to the Outer Border guards?”

Audrey blinked. The Outer Border was real? Everybody spoke of it in hushed tones, as if it was a conspiracy or something like that. Border guards patrolled the 10km deep area surrounding the habitations of the minors, but it was suspected that a further 20 km area existed. And it was said that minors weren’t the only ones patrolling in that area. Nobody was ever allowed to go wander there, of course, so there was no proof of it, but Audrey was now offered a opportunity to discover the truth of it!

“I’m in!” she blurted, before turning red with embarrassment.

“Wonderful. You’ll have to move in the Outer border area tomorrow then. We’ll explain the details to your family, but we’ll require of you to choose your partner for this mission. At first it’ll be a six months long tour, to see if you can adapt. Here are three profiles we have selected. They are young  - a tad older than you however - but highly capable and have been grilled to be sure they’d be able to work properly with a trainee like you” explained Dubourg as he produced three files for her to peruse.

“We need your answer in an hour” stated Sephania with an encouraging smile.

* * *

That hour was far too short for Audrey’s taste. She barely had the time to really get a glance at the three women she had been told to choose from. But she had made her choice. Their resume seemed great, the very little she had been given at least and they were beautiful. But the third one had had something which had caught her eyes. Perhaps it was her read hair, kept in a short, masculine way, perhaps it was her very muscular and yet perfectly feminine body… or a combination of all of that.

In any case, she was what she loved in women. She had never admitted it, but Audrey was attracted as much by boys than girl – perhaps even more girls than boys, if she was being honest with herself. She did her best to hide it, because there was a certain pressure for minors to give birth to new generations. And that Megan girl seemed just too beautiful for her to pass up the opportunity to work with for six months.

“An excellent choice – perhaps a bit bold, but we were the ones who put Megan in that trio” chuckled Matthewson, grinning at the other two. “She’ll be extremely happy to meet you tomorrow. I hope you’ll be ready, it’ll be a great change in your life, I’m sure you’ll love it however. Megan is one of our best elements.”

“Uh… why was it bold of me?” dared to ask Audrey as she exited, whispering it to her professor.

“Oh… If you haven’t noticed way, far from me to spoil your surprise tomorrow; all I can say is that Megan will surprise you” replied the old man. “Just, remember that if you ever feel insecure for whatever reason, you can call your parents or someone in there and we’ll act swiftly, okay?”

“Okay” she replied, a little cowed, but also elated – the next day would be memorable!

Chapter 2

Audrey got out of the Land Rover, her heart beating incredibly fast. She had never been that far from home. She lived in the historical heart of the Reserve, and now she was well past 80 km away from home. It seemed so strange, almost dizzying, and she wondered how her friends would feel when they’d move so much more beyond it. She hoped she’d be able to see them again some day, but right then she suspected it was all but impossible!

Her driver, a relatively tall 40 years old guy, at around 1m88, helped her put down her bags, containing almost everything she owned : her clothes, her books and her personal computer. She had been surprised to be allowed to bring so much stuff, since she had expected to live in a small cabin in the woods or something like that. Instead, she was now staring at a mansion – she couldn’t think of any other word – encased in an enormous wall, which extended in on each side of it as far as she could see.

“Is that…” she started, feeling a little nauseous contemplating something so big.

“Yeah, that’s the Outer Border. I’ve never seen what lay beyond, mind. But I’ve heard from people in similar posts than yours that it’s really something else. Anyway… I’ll be going now, your partner should be here in a minute and I need to go and drive someone else before noon. Good luck kiddo!”

And with that, Audrey was left alone. She looked at the car driving away and resisted the urge to chase after it. It was what she had always wanted. To be able to serve her community and yet see the world outside, if only a little! She shouldn’t have felt so sick now. Mercifully, she hadn’t the time to consider any of it, as the ground started to shake. She knew enough to suspect it was a tremor, even if she was surprised. It seemed pretty strong and yet she had never experienced any at home…

“Hey, you must be Audrey! I’m Megan, glad to meet you!” suddenly boomed a voice far high, by the wall.

Audrey swirled around and her mouth opened as she looked at the tallest being she had ever seen. The wall was at least six meters tall and now she was seeing the face of Megan, her partner, looming well over it, by at least two meters. The minor girl felt sick and she probably bleached because the immense creature looked worried suddenly. She seemed to jump over the wall, landing with such force that Audrey was sent on her knees.

“Sorry, sorry. They didn’t told you, right?” chuckled the ginger woman as she approached the prostrated minor. “I’m Megan and your Audrey. And, well… Yeah, I’m a  CYCLO.”

Audrey could only kneel as her mind was a pure mixture of existential terror and – to her own surprise – arousal. Megan was stunning. The minor was relatively small, barely 1m65 when that fiery-headed colossus had to be around 8 meters tall, at least. She had to look slightly up at her knee! And what a knee it was! Megan was just as muscular as she had seemed on the few pictures she had seen in her profile. She wasn’t just athletic, she seemed able to lift a truck with her bare hands!

“Yeah, I can do that. And I’m 8m23, if you want to know. That’s really tall, even for a CYCLO” boasted the giantess.

“Wha… How did you…” stuttered Audrey, terrified at the idea that this woman would be able to read her mind.

“Shit, so it IS true… you guys don’t use the Bond in here! That’s… insane!”

“The what?”

Audrey knew of the Bond. In theory. Supposedly, it was that sort of link between two minds – or more – one of which had to be a minor. But in the Reserve, nobody truly made use of it. Perhaps you could know how someone was feeling, but she had always chalked it up to basic empathy, nothing…. Out of the ordinary like the Bond was supposed to be! And now, here she was, with a giantess who looked at her a little puzzled.

“Oh gosh, I didn’t know” blushed Megan. “Forget it, I’ll do my best to not, uh, you know… read your mind.”

“No! No, it’s my fault!” yelped Audrey when she realized what was happening. Close your mind, she willed herself. Close your mind. Don’t think about how beautiful she is and… Close your mind!

“Do you, uh, want me to pick up your stuff?” asked the CYCLO, trying to find something to do which would prevent them both to talk about the very obvious fact that Audrey was falling hard for her and that they both knew it, courtesy of the minor’s mind being wide open.

They were super awkward and Audrey felt a little angry at her professor and the other two members of the jury who had sent her here without preparing her accordingly. Still, she couldn’t help but gawk as Megan effortlessly piled her bags in her stretched hand and lift them as if they weighed nothing. Only one of them remained on the ground, the one with the “Fragile” label plastered on it. The ginger giantess looked at it then Audrey quizzically and the minor dashed to lift it as best she could and follow her partner inside the mansion – her house.

“So… I guess I am really the first MAJOR you’ve ever seen?”

“Yes…”

“Oh, don’t be ashamed – or afraid. They told me that there was a high probability of you being into me – you or any other minor, really!”

“That’s true?”

“Yeah. Plus… it’s flattening” blushed the giantess, a she looked over her broad shoulders. “I mean, back home, people don’t drool over the way my muscles move nearly as much as you!”

It seemed she was overcoming the awkwardness of the situation far quicker than Audrey felt able to. She had read about MAJORS of course, and how promiscuous they could be at times. But it was one thing to read about it, and one another altogether to be dealing with that in person. Megan seemed to like the situation now, as Audrey realized she was actually showing off, letting her muscles bulge and even adding a little swagger in her walk. And that grin!

“I’m so happy I chose to work here now” chuckled the giantess. “Everybody had told me it was dumb, that I was loosing any opportunity to actually get a significant other – especially a minor one. But I knew they were wrong!”

Megan’s character seemed so bubbly and energetic that Audrey was starting to acclimate surprisingly fast to her towering size. But it also meant that she needed more time to truly register what had just been said. She stopped just as the CYCLO opened the door, revealing how sturdy and massive that slab of wood was, probably far too much for her to ever hope to even pry open a little. She looked at the colossus entering but she felt unable to move or even think and it wasn’t until Megan came back, looking worried again, that she startled out of it.

“Sorry, I zoned out!” she meekly said and she tried to dash into the house and a hand large enough to engulf her stopped her gently.

“Relax. I know you guys are…. Calmer in there and that you don’t live like your kind does in the outside world. That’s one of the reasons I wanted to work here so much, to be able to meet someone like you, a perfectly free and independent minor.”

The giantess was crouching now, almost sitting on her heels. And even then, she loomed at almost four time the size of Audrey, who couldn’t help but let her eyes wander on those large calves, those muscular arms, and even that torso, upon which the twin orbs of Megan’s breasts, rather petite compared to her frame, were well visible, an obvious proof of her sheer feminine power, if she ever needed one. Audrey gulped, her eyes finally focusing on the amused face of the giantess.

“You’re adorable” purred Megan. “I can’t wait to have established a routine with you, but you really need to relax. I won’t pounce on you or anything. And you shouldn’t feel too bad your feelings for me. Everyone in the Outer border guard knows that’s how it works: a MAJOR and a minor together, partners in more ways than one.”

“Is that true?” dared to ask Audrey, who couldn’t believe that at all.

“Yeah, you’re adorable” grinned the giantess.

“No! I meant…”

“Yeah, I know; just playing with you. But yeah, on the Outer Border, it’s usually a MAJORS and a minor together – once the former has been cleared for that partnership, at least.”

“Hum… and people, MAJORS, they come from all over the world for that? No offense but, uh, you’ve got an accent…”

“Yeah. I’m from Kentucky” chuckled Megan. “It was hard getting accustomed to Europe and all the different measures and all that, four years ago. But I did a good job otherwise I wouldn’t have been selected to be partnered with you cutie.”

Audrey nodded, even if she felt a little overwhelmed. She didn’t knew much about MAJORS really, it wasn’t a subject discussed at length in the Reserve. It was, after all, supposed to be a place freed of MAJORS interference as much as possible, hence the need for a border guard in the first place. But now, she couldn’t help but wonder how much of it wasn’t just a sort of, of grooming program. Perhaps MAJORS wanted ingénue minors popping from time to time? Made for better toys or pets or…

“Hey, no need to worry so much about all of it Audrey!” chuckled the CYCLO, who was still looking at her tenderly. “Gosh, you’re so cute when you blush” she added softer and she extended a finger to caress the left side of her face – with a tip larger than that. “We’re partners for the next six months, we’ll have time to talk about all of this and more. And if you’re ever uncomfortable with me, you know you can call the authorities anytime, okay?”

“Yeah, I know… But…”

“No but. You feel a tad unsafe, you call them, okay? They’ll know better than me how to help you adjust and if you need to return home or not. By the way, the first months it’s mandatory that you contact them every day. That’s really important, I’m counting on you. It helped me, if you’re wondering, when I started four years ago.”

“Four years… how old are you?”

“Thirty-two. And you’re twenty, gosh, you’re still a kid – almost” gushed the red-hair. “No, don’t take it badly, it’s one of the reason I volunteered to be in your potential partner selection.”

“You… volunteered? How does that even work?”

“Well, the goal of the Reserve is to bolster pure minor’s lineage, so risking one of you guys getting pregnant when partnered up with a MAJOR is a big no-no. And, well, I’ve read that at first they partnered some dudes from the Reserves with gals from outside but it didn’t worked out – the ladies got pregnant and separating MAJORS and minors in those situations felt wrong for all parties involved.”

“So today being gay or bi gets you into the Border guard more easily?” bluntly asked Audrey.

“Yeah.”

“And we’re expected to patrol together and be partners in more way that one. That mean having sex, right?”

“Only of you want to. But I know I’d love to. With you only” hastily completed the colossus.

Audrey felt a little dizzy. She hadn’t even settled into the house she’d spend the next six months and she was still confused, with everything she knew being rediscovered under a new light. She wondered for the first time if she hadn’t made a mistake choosing to join the Border guard. But when she looked up at that sculptural goddess in front of her, with her massive muscles and her raw femininity and that glint in her green eyes, she decided that she could at least try it on. With limits.

“Just professional partners, okay?”

“Ooh… yeah, okay. Anyway, you’re right, we need to get you settled first, I kind of spread everything on you too fast. Come on in!”

And with that, the CYCLO got up again and entered the house, gesturing for her to enter.

Chapter 3

Audrey felt as if she walked into a cathedral. Not that she had ever seen one, of course, there was none in the Reserve. She was used to low, one floor – two at best – houses and constructions. But she had seen pictures of some and it surely felt like it.

And the fact that everything was scaled to fit Megan’s size made the whole thing even more disorienting. She furrowed her brow. No, in fact, Megan seemed too tall for the house, with her furniture being slightly too tall like her near the built-in accommodations.

“Yeah, I’m… super tall, even for a CYCLO” said the ginger girl, not looking at her, but Audrey shivered a little – she needed to get her mind under control, asap!

“You’re… how much taller are you?”

“Hard to say…” slowly replied the giantess. “There is only a handful of peoples my size – literally. Most CYCLOS range between 4m50 and perhaps 6m30? But that’s just the average.”

“And… and MAJORS?” meekly pressed on the minor girl, who felt as if she’d get knocked out by the idea of so many peoples near Megan’s size.

“Oh, those guys are tiny” laughed the Cyclo. “Something like 3m50 top, perhaps a bit more. Small CYCLOS and big MAJORS can be hard to differentiate – if there is even a difference.”

“They are tiny!? At more than 3 meters!?”

“Oh, I guess they’d be tall for you, yeah” admitted Megan as she continued to drop Audrey’s stuff on a sort of interior balcony.

“Yeah, they would, I guess…”

“But you know, there is no reason to be afraid with me around” boasted the CYCLO, flexing her arms and showing off her sculptural muscles in all their glory.

“Uh… okay. By the way, shouldn’t you putting my stuff on the floor? It’s be easier for me to, you know, get it and start to unpack?”

“Oh, but your apartments are up here. It’s for safety measure, really” she added hastily as Audrey gasped as she heard it. “Imagine if there is urgence and we both get up at night, or something like that. You being on the ground could be dangerous. But don’t worry, I’m super careful, really!”

Megan’s hasty reassurance did precious little to calm Audrey. She had bleached at the idea of being on the ground near that colossus if she started to rush around. She probably weighted enough for her to be crushed into a pulp even without any real strength being applied, and if Megan did apply some. Audrey shook her head. She was getting dizzy and it was becoming harder to breathe. She almost dropped her fragile bag as she leant on the nearby wall for support.

“Audrey, it’s okay, it’s okay.”

Megan was speaking slowly and softly and, looking at her as she clutched her bag. The CYCLO had finished dropping her stuff and now she was retreating away from her. It seemed so ridiculous that it pierced the veil of terror which had descended on her, if only a little.

Megan was now sitting, lowering herself as much as possible – even then, she still loomed over Audrey’s line of sight. But she seemed to try to look less intimidating. And the minor could have sworn she was hearing a sort of lullaby now, but Megan was talking in the same time.

“Audrey, look at me, you’ll be fine. See, I’m far away. You don’t need to worry. Why don’t you give me the bag, I’ll put it with the others and you’ll reach them with the stairway, okay?”

The minor girl nodded meekly and she slowly put the bag on the ground. She was unable to move just yet and she tensed even more when Megan very slowly moved closer to be able to pick up the bag.

She felt such a pure terror suddenly that she was unable to think straight, but a small part of her was starting to shake those feelings. She was ashamed and she looked away, blushing abundantly. Why was she behaving like that? Why was she losing her cool so easily!

“I’ll be getting up, okay?” said the CYCLO when she scooped up the bag in her hand.

“Yes” croaked Audrey. “I… I’m feeling better, sorry…”

“Don’t be, it’s only natural. You’ve never been around someone as big as me and I got a little… carried away I guess. I should have taken into consideration how much of a toll it must be for you!”

Audrey nodded and she found the courage to look at Megan rising. It was truly phenomenal. She was taller than most houses and trees she had seen back home. Back home. Merely 80 km away. That was nothing, she was realizing it now.

She had lived all her life a stone throw away from a world of giants and she hadn’t ever truly pondered what it meant. Her world was a bubble and she was now at its edge. If she wasn’t careful, she’d puncture it and nothing would ever be the same again, for her and her friends and families…

“Feeling better?”

“You know that already right?”

Audrey cringed a little at how weak and pathetic she sounded, but at least her little remark made Megan chuckle.

“Why don’t you get upstairs, it’ll be more comfortable to speak, for both of us.”

The minor girl looked around and noticed a small door, upon which was engraved the word stairs. She opened it and up she went. It wasn’t too long, merely a dozen or seconds or so, because her legs were still wobbly, until she finally reached the balcony.

“See, isn’t it much better like that?”

Megan was still looking down at her, but not that much. The top of her head was “barely” a meter over Audrey’s line of sight now. Somehow, she looked even more massive, as she leant against the wall to have a better view of the minor girl who approached the railing.

“Whoa” whispered Audrey.

She was still frightened, and every time Megan moved, even a little, she was startled a little. But now that she hadn’t to look up that much to see her face, she was realizing how pretty the CYCLO was. She blushed as those big green eyes seemed to pore holes into her skull and she turned around. With her plain face and her brown hair she felt so unattractive suddenly.

“I find you super cute” said Megan, as she approached the balcony a little.

“I’d rather be beautiful” mumbled Audrey but the low chuckle she heard probably meant the giantess also had heard that. “I… I need to call my superiors to let them now everything is fine.”

“Oh, yeah, go on. I’ll be here, if you need someone to talk to you can see, okay? I’ll probably be cooking something for me, if you want a bite, I’ll be happy to share!”

Audrey nodded but she rushed into the more secluded area of the house. In here, everything was the right size – her size. She didn’t feel like she had shrunk, like when she was around Megan. It bothered her. She shouldn’t have felt smaller; it should have been the CYCLO who ought to look out of place.

But she seemed to radiate so much energy and confidence that the world had to admit she was the right size and everything else was just too small. Audrey shook her head and fished her phone out of her pocket. She called the number she had been given, ready to ask some serious questions.

“Hello Audrey. How are you doing?” almost immediately asked the voice of Pr. Zitter, whom she knew oversaw the young recruits in the Border guard.

“Uh… Not so well” she bluntly admitted. “I mean, nobody told me I’d be partnered up with a fucking giantess who can read mind!”

“Oh, so I take all went well with Megan” chuckled the older man. “I knew it was safe to put her up for adoption.”

“Excuse me?”

“That’s the colloquial term we use for the MAJORS who have volunteered to be part of the Outer Border guard. They are “adopted” by their minor partner, really. You were the one choosing her, after all.”

“Wait, she told me she volunteered to be in my selection! How can I have adopted her?”

“Well, I guess it is more of a mutual adoption, sure… she saw your profile before we made you your offer to join the Outer Border Guards corp.  If you had said no, she’d remained alone here. But in case you joined, we needed to have three compatible profiles for you to choose one, you see?”

In truth, Audrey didn’t really saw that, but she was too shocked to answer and clearly the professor felt that it meant that she had agreed to his words. He continued talking some more and she answered in a very autopilot kind of way. Her mind was trying to deal with the fact she was now supposed to live with a muscular giantess. A muscular giantess who also sported curves which were incredible and made her drool a little; and who could read mind, of course, because all of the rest wasn’t freaking enough!

“Audrey, are you still there?” asked the old fatherly voice. “I assure you that Megan is perfectly safe for you to be around, she won’t do anything too risqué or anything like that, I’m sure.”

“Oh, yeah, okay. Sorry professor I zoomed out a little.”

“Don’t worry, I’m kind of used to that. All in all, you’re taking it really well. Call me tomorrow at the same time okay? You’ll be able to better inform me of what you truly feel.”

“Okay. See you tomorrow then” she said, and he hang up on her.

Audrey sighed. She almost wanted to hole up in her section of the house but she was certain it’d have been both useless and cowardly. Useless because Megan probably could tore out of the walls if need be, and cowardly because she had been the one choosing to come here in the first place. She gritted her teeth and decided that she’d confront her crazy situation head on. Her best friends were moving out of the Reserve entirely, surely she could deal with an overgrown woman? It would have been pathetic otherwise!

“An overgrown woman. A very sexy, super muscular and curvy giantess whom I’d have asked out if she was my size already” she said out loud. “Come on, keep it together Audrey, you can do it! Megan won’t overwhelm you!”

Audrey tried to shield her mind. She had no idea how she could do that but she imagined that if she pictured walls surrounding her brain it’d work. She soldiered out of her room, into the “shared” portion of the house and through another door upon which – she just now remarked – was carved the simple word “kitchen”. She opened it and walked briskly, focusing all her will on the castle surrounding her mind. It had to work, it just had to!

“That’s a lovely castle, but you forgot the roof babe” laughed Megan without even turning around as she was cooking something. “And my! Someone is naughty! Do you want me to do what you just thought about?”

The CYCLO was laughing, a very throaty laugh now as she slightly turned around, offering a tantalizing view of her chest to the minor woman whose defenses had been blown away like sands in a storm by the sheer presence of the giantess. A ginger her dirty mind had immediately pictured naked as she humming to herself, when she had had her baked turned and she swayed a little, as if she was listening a music only she could hear. Audrey almost stopped breathing when a sly smile came over Megan’s face and she cupped her left breast.

“They are a lot heavier than they look babe. A little help supporting them would feel so good” she purred, her green eyes half closed as she turned more and more toward Audrey, who was now letting weak gurgles as she tried to speak. “Don’t you want to help me, babe? It’d help us build so much our relationship, we’d be better partners I swear.”

“My name is Audrey” croaked the minor, managing to lift her gaze from those perky and far too massive orbs on the muscular goddess to look into her eyes; she even managed to glare. “It’s not babe, Megan!”

“Audrey? Are you okay?” asked her mother’s voice

The minor girl was startled. She blinked and suddenly she was still before the door leading to the kitchen. She turned beef red and realized that she had never went through it. She had imagined all of it. She swirled around and rushed into her room. What was wrong with her? How could she be so much heels over head that just thinking about a woman she had just met, who could crush her as if she was an insignificant rodent, was enough to made her produce such vivid day dreams.

“I’m going to sleep, too tired to eat” she wrote Megan.

Unbeknownst to her, in the kitchen, the CYCLO looked at her phone and sighed. She hadn’t been able to see what Audrey’s imagination had pictured by she couldn’t help but feel the flare up of her sudden passion when she had approached her. If only the minor girl wasn’t that impressionable, perhaps she’d have picked up on what truly appealed to her partner. She looked over her shoulder, at the place where she knew the minuscule bed her petite colleague was now sleeping and said six words.

“I’ll make you my wife.”

Chapter 4

“Wow, you look terrible.”

Audrey looked at her enormous hostess with bleary eyes. To say that she hadn’t slept well would have been an understatement. She couldn’t remember everything she had dreamt about in the few hours she actually managed to sleep, and what she could was blurry and rather shameful. She was doing her best to protect her mind, even if she had no idea how to, and she suspected that Megan was able to read her like an open book, what with that sly smile of her and all.

“It was hard being far from my family” she replied, and it wasn’t entirely a lie.

“You’re not that far from them” chuckled the CYCLO. “I mean, it’s what, an hour-long jog, at most?”

“For you, perhaps. It’s longer for me.”

“Oh, yeah, sorry” blushed the giantess.

It made her look even more beautiful that she already was, realized Audrey, but she tried to focus on anything else than the beautiful freckled face of the ginger jumbo-MAJOR. Which wasn’t an easy task, considering how close her face was, here in the “command room” as Megan had called it. So as to avoid being drawn in those green pools of her eyes, the minor woman looked at the maps on the walls and the ginormous table down below – if she had been on the ground she could have strode easily beneath that thing without needing to bend her knees even a little…

“So, uh… what do you want me to do?” she asked, trying to decipher what she was seeing on the table, which seems to be a large screen showing off the maps of the surrounding area .

“Oh! It’s mostly helping me while I patrol the area. You see” she continued, suddenly quite focused on her work it seemed, “we have sensors  all over the wall and then some in the nearby vicinity of it, roughly ten kilometers inside the reserve. Our goal is to make sure no one from the outside world come in and wreak havoc inside, basically.”

“When you mean someone, you mean a MAJOR, right? I believed that you guys all loved us now. Isn’t it the case?”

“Not really” grimaced Megan, who seemed embarrassed. “You see, a lot of people, of MAJORS… they want to experience the Bond. It’s… really addictive. Like. A lot. But most pairings between a MAJOR and a minor give births to MAJORS, because of the way our respective sub-species’ genes work, or something like that – it was never my forte, genetics. So basically, if we did nothing, we’d have a lot of MAJORS with minor ancestry and sure, it’d help increase the chances of two MAJORS birthing minors but…”

“But the overall population of minor would decline and reach extinction level?” continued Audrey, who bleached.

She had always known that her people were few in numbers – after all, they wouldn’t have been in a reserve – one among many around the world – if they were a healthy ethnic group. She had seen peoples from other reserves being brought here to meet up and see if they could fit and make the genepool larger or something like that. But it was one thing to know it in the back of your head, and quite another to be confronted to the real implications of that fact.

“Am I… where will I patrol the walls?” she asked Megan, her throat a little sore perhaps.

“You won’t.”

“What!?” yelped an indignant Audrey. “I’m sure I can do that quite well and –“

“I’m sure you can” said Megan gently but firmly, her deep, powerful voice drowning Audrey’s own with ease. “For one because you’re a newbie at this and we can’t have you that exposed yet. And also because no minor is allowed on the wall, since you’d be able to see what lay beyond and we don’t want it.”

“Then what am I supposed to do” huffed Audrey, who felt her temper sour. “I’m to sit in your chest  or back pocket while you look over the wall?”

“Well…” chuckled the CYCLO, who really seemed to like the idea. “As much as I’d love to see you there” she continued, lightly tapping the pocked which was stretch incredibly by her large rack, which made the minor blush abundantly, “No. You’re supposed to stay here and monitor the regions I’m supposed to patrol. You can direct me toward any intrusion faster than if I had to rely on someone at central command relaying the information to me.”

“There is a central command?”

Audrey immediately felt dumb asking it, as soon as it had left her mouth but she decided that she wouldn’t try to wiggle her way out of it. Of course there was a central command, but now that she had asked it, she’d put her feet firmly on the ground and stand here, without feeling ridiculous of anything. She puffed her chest, which wasn’t really that impressive because her breasts were quite small – even proportionally speaking compared to Megan’s. But she had her pride, damn it!

Megan looked at her as she bit her lips and the minor woman couldn’t help but wonder of she looked to that colossus of a border guard. Probably ridiculous, especially since she tried to keep her mind for herself without any clue how to do just that… She should have probably meekly obeyed the older member of her team, who knew best what was expected of them, but she was prideful enough that she didn’t want to back down, even if it made her look childish. Perhaps she was childish, especially compared to the sexyness of Megan and…

“Yes there is” said the CYCLO, bringing Audrey’s mind back to the situation at hand. “It’s somewhere in your portion of the reserve, I’ve obviously never seen it. But the problem is the delays. If there is no reaction here, e message is sent to the central command, and then they react, but the things is, MAJORS can move pretty damn fast on their little legs and they cover far more ground that their diminutive stature would have you assume.”

“Herm… Excuse me? Little legs? Diminutive stature? Are you sure you’re talking about MAJORS here?”

“Oh… yeah, for you I guess they’d look kind of tall I guess” admitted Megan with an amused smile. “But they really are little. Not as much as you, of course” she continued, as she detailed her and Audrey froze, as if some huge predator was looking straight at her. “You’re… minuscule, and it makes me so worried…”

“Worried!?” yelped Audrey, whose tension was returning being so close to the CYCLO.

“Yes. I’m worried about you. It’s a big world out there, and what would I do if something happened to you? That’s why it’ll be a relief to have you here, partner. Also, you’re super competent according to the school, so I know I’ll have even better of a success rate doing my job with you here monitoring me.”

“I don’t really see how I can monitor stuff correctly here. The table’s too big for me, I’d need to be on top of it and walking on the screen seems dumb!”

“You should have a work computer in a that locker” explained Megan, pointing at a piece of furniture that Audrey hadn’t even seen, most probably because the CYCLO was so much larger than life that it was extremely difficult to focus on anything but her. “Also, you have a pliable table in there, in theory at least” continued the giantess but the minor woman suspected that she knew exactly what she was thinking considering how larger her grin was now. “That way you can place you wherever you like even on the outside balcony.”

“O, okay thanks” meekly replied Audrey, who was now blushing abundantly. “So, I’m like, in charge of you, right?”

“The cheek of that girl” laughed the CYCLO woman, as she approached the inside balcony where Audrey was on, pressing her mounds into it to get closer. “You could say that, by the way. But being in charge of me would be taxing, I think. Let’s consider it more an equal partnership, eh?”

She smelt so good! Audrey couldn’t help, as much as she wanted it to not be the case, it was all her brain accepted to focus on as she was less than ammeter away from a face almost as tall as she was. It was mostly an odor of rose with a tinge of orange, which was her favorite perfume really, but underneath was also Megan’s own smell; and the only description she could think off about that one was wild. She didn’t stink, far from it, it was even a little intoxicating. She felt like an apex predator, a dominant would, in Audrey’s mind. It was the smell of a superior being.

“Thanks. You smell great too” whispered Megan, snapping Audrey out of it.

“I… I didn’t want to…. I mean, you are…” blabbered Audrey, who didn’t knew how to get out of this very embarrassing situation, which she suspected would happen a lot until she learnt to close her damn mind off!

“You don’t need to be embarrassed” softly said Megan, her large eyes squinting a little to better see the small woman before her. “And you don’t need to be worried about your mind being so open. It’s great, really. I mean, you have beautiful thoughts and, well, uh… how to say it without sounding dumb… I love the way you think? It’s… soothing, if you will.”

As she spoke, she gently put her fingers over the edge of the balcony, clutching it lightly as if she was trying not to give in into a urge she wanted very badly to submit to. She even bit her lips. Audrey could have been worried, but something in the almost supplicating expression on Megan’s face, as if she was trying to convey that she really didn’t want to do anything to her without her consent, was strangely reassuring. It was almost as if instincts she had never known she had were awakening inside of the minor girl, now.

“You said you wouldn’t read my mind” mumbled Audrey, who was fidgeting now, as if she didn’t knew how to react around a giantess who didn’t even try to pretend she wasn’t into her – she had been clear yesterday, she wanted to have sex with her after all!

“I said I tried. And yeah, I’d love to be in a bed with you. Naked. I’ve always wanted to have a minor lover. You girls are just too cute…” whispered the muscular redhead, her voice dropping to a very seductive low tone. “Think of all the possibilities, Audrey. I promise you’d never have experienced anything like that.”

Audrey trusted her, and she was on the verge on giving in. Megan was absolutely everything she wanted in a lover, physically at least, abstraction made of her sheer size, but if she was being honest, being super massive enhanced her, since it meant she had far more muscles to explore, and she could do feats of strength that Audrey could only dreamt off. But she couldn’t give in to temptation like that! She had her pride as a minor!

“I’d rather we focused on work for now” she croaked, her voice sounding strangely unappealing even to her ears.

“As you wish Audrey” sighed Megan. “But the offer still stands. You just have to ask and I’ll do as you want. And just to be clear, I’m open minded, don’t hesitate to tell me what you want out of me, you know? Communication is always a plus, no matter the kind of relationship two peoples can have. I know it from experience.”

“Yeah, I, uh, I’ll try to remember it” blushed the minor woman, but she was saved by a sudden alarm.

The sound was loud enough to make her wince a little but what truly startled her was the sudden change in Megan’s behavior. Where she had been seducing and more than a little horny, she was suddenly all focused and almost angry as she looked at the map below. Audrey scrambled to get her computer and table out of the locker. The latter seemed rather basic, very light and easy to break, even for her, but the former was state of the art, far more advanced that what she had ever seen at home.

Megan was already bolting toward the door. It was terrifying to see something so big move so fast. She was truly super-human. She lifted a backpack she strapped on her back and then something which horrified Audrey. She couldn’t help but squeal when the CYCLO revealed a rifle, large enough to have been a canon or a tank weapon for a minor. And she seemed more than ready to use it, considering her grim expression. But the minor’s reaction stopped her in he track. The red-head turned around and smiled gently at her.

“Don’t worry Audrey. I’ve never had to use that beast. But better safe than sorry, don’t you agree. I’ll be counting on you, by the way. My earpiece is connected to your computer, you can speak into it and I’ll hear you. Gotta go, remember to tell me if other alarms are tripped – I’ll need it to track whoever entered the reserve today.”

“Okay, will do” replied Audrey, who started to get into her role, pushing away all her fears, worries and stupor to be of use.

And with that, she was alone. She spent a few minute putting the table up and picked a pliable chair in the same locker. It was rudimentary, truly, but it’d do for now. If she stayed longer, perhaps she’d see if she couldn’t get better stuff here, or at least something comfortable. The laptop was incredible, in a split second it was up and running and she could open the map of the nearby region. It wasn’t a lot of ground really, roughly 30 kilometers each side of the house along the walls and 10 kilometers deep inside the reserve itself.

A blue bip on the map indicated Megan’s position and Audrey couldn’t help but gasp when she realized that in five minutes or less she had needed to put up the table and everything in order, the CYCLO had already covered at least two kilometers and a half, if not three, towards the area, a dozen kilometers away from their base, where an intruder had tripped an alarm. She has to be bulldozing through the forest, realized Audrey, who could hardly conjure this picture of her co-worker pushing aside decades – if not centuries – old trees out of her way.

“Megan to Audrey, do you copy?” suddenly asked the giantess’ voice, quite strange to Audrey’s ears.

“Yes, I’m here” she replied, as she tried to analyze why she felt that way, as if something was off with Megan’s voice.

“Great. Can you tell me if a new alarm has been tripped?”