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?”