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.”