Cafeteria of the central hospital of Bahia: 16:00 in the afternoon (February 13)

Chris sat at the tables closest to the window of the cafeteria, slightly pissed that Juddit was not going to be able to leave in time for Valentine's Day. The rehabilitation was going well, but the doctor assigned to him was a complete imbecile. "You can not risk it" "You can walk but we have to be sure that it has healed well". Idiot doctor.

The hospital is not a place that anyone likes. Hannah seemed almost so afraid of him that you could say that she got phobic, so Juddit does not let her stay more than during visiting hours; and on the part of Veronica was up to work. What left Chris alone to accompany her all day.
It is true that Chris loved Juddit, even with the difference in age, but having to be in the hospital all day was a real pain in the ass.

"Cousin! Finally, what are you doing in such a hidden corner?" Mirabelle came to the cafeteria even in her uniform, which caused her to draw so much attention from the other customers that even a couple of waiters stopped to look and a chef came out of the kitchens just to see her.

"Precisely for this idiot ..." Chris sighed as Mira dragged one of the lowest extra-human chairs and sat across from her cousin. "Let me guess ... you came directly from work, you have not gone through the floor, which leads me to the conclusion that you have not picked up the clothes of the shopkeeper."

"You have to be scolding me now ... I just arrived ..." Mira had a very curious thing, and that is that when he smiles or gets sad he honestly does it with his mouth and with those of both tentacles. Which Chris never managed to understand how he did it.

"It's okay ... Thanks for coming with me for a while, with all this kidnapping and with the preparations of the Bahia festival you will be exhausted from so much work." Chris raised his hand to call the waiter, which provoked a debate about who should attend the Jabberwock.

"Calm down, we're family, no, today I come with you and tomorrow you'll help me with something, can you ask for me? I left my wallet in the office, and I do not dare to ask Jack to bring it to me ..." Mirabelle I drop it lightly on the table, causing it to tilt towards its side.

"When are you going to introduce me to that boyfriend of yours? I've been thinking about whether I need, to be an overprotective cousin or being sinister and dark?"

"Dark?, Chris, I've known you since you were born, you can not be sinister!"

"I was born before idiot, so the one who knows you since you were born is me, Why you will not let me be your overprotective cousin?"

"Because I love you too much! And I do not want you to be more ridiculous than my boyfriend ... I told you that now he goes by bay in funk time plan?" In the end, one of the waiters approached half trembling to the table. "Porfin! I want ... 4 cheese sandwiches and two of ham, very toasted! and a glass ... better, a jar of orange fanta!"

"A ... jar ... understood ..." The waiter went off, to the amazement of Mirabelle and the fatigue of Chris.

"How is it possible that living in Bahia, the best city in the world for extrahumans, there are still people who are afraid of the dragon type?" Chris leaned back in his chair, looking to rest his feet on Mira's.

"Partly I understand, I am the least intimidating! it was part of the reason that they turned me into a GUN spear! From the outside I do not know, but to see such a big dragon, with huge claws, with huge wings, with two tentacles! very scary for those who do not know me "Mira smiled knowingly at her cousin, remembering how many times her appearance and power had saved them from the mess.

"If people knew that the great Mirabelle, the jabberwock of G.U.N's spears is really just a timid little girl who could not even kill a mosquito when she was little-"

"Chris! Stop! I have an image to keep! Imagine what my boss would say if she found out that I really am not violent or aggressive ..." Mira sighed as he looked out the window. Just at the moment she saw the convertible of Jack and Bolt parking, with funkytown at full blast as Jack promised. "Oh no ... this is not going to be good ..."

"This one?" Chris looked at the window through the window in the direction Mira was looking. "Oh god, what a geek, does not it look like it's straight out of a movie about Funk!" Chris was laughing like never before in many days, totally oblivious to Mira's growing concern.

In the hospital parking.

 
Jack jumped out of the convertible, not bothering to open the door. He picked up his cane lined like a mirror ball and wiped his new, shiny yellow suit. "Today is a beautiful day! The birds sing to the rhythm of saturday night fever, the children play in the hospital garden! Everything is in place to receive me! The radar indicates that Mira's phone is in this hospital! Keep your eyes open, secretary! Let's go for the Jabberwock!"

Bolt did not know how many days they had been like this, every hour of the sun was hell, every hour at night a continuous torture. And now Jack had a suit that could not be more striking. And Bolt had his waiting in the store, not knowing how much more he could pretend he was not ready yet.
"Okay boss ..." Bolt had lost the courage, the will, was nothing more than a lost soul dragged by a tsunami of funky music and bad taste.

The hospital is a wonderful place, where life and death meet, where some say goodbye and others say hello. Jack loved coming to the hospital, sometimes even for no reason, just to sit in the hallway and watch people go by. But today was not one of those days! Today he was looking for his precious and terrifying girlfriend to return the wallet, and then continue looking for a store to buy some dice for the car.

"Boss ... according to this he's in the cafeteria-" "That's the way I like it! Good job secretary, follow him and you'll be promoted to super secretary." Bolt had been cursing Jack's mother for so many days that it hurt her.

Jack entered the cafeteria opening the doors dramatically, taking a slight dance step before the attentive look of the believers, some of them already recording with their phones.
"Look at me, I'm the great Jack, member of G.U.N's spears and your hero!" No one said anything, to Jack's astonishment. "Calm down, I know you're dumbfounded when you see me! It's natural! Who wants an autograph?" No one got up or said anything, to Jack's annoyance. "I'm Jack ... nobody wants an autograph?"

As if he come from the heaven, a child got off the table where he was having breakfast with his parents and walked towards Jack, who bent down and opened his arms wide to receive him. "Sir, have you come with Zoe? I want the autograph, but when she came to my school for a talk I forgot"

Mirabelle and Bolt were struggling to hold back their laughter with all their might, while Jack did not come out of his astonishment. "No ... I have not come with Zoe ... and my autograph ... Do not you want it? ..."

"No sir" And without further ado the boy left, leaving Jack frozen and desolate.

Jack did not even notice when Mira approached him and crouched beside him, stroking his head.

"Come on, champion ... someday somebody will want your autograph ..." Mira was not an expert in comforting people, and honestly, she did not believe that this was such a dramatic situation for that.

"Your ... wallet ..." Jack left his wallet on the floor, and without saying another word he ran out of the hospital, crying and clenching his teeth. This time those who did not leave their astonishment were Bolt and Mira.

"So ... that's jack no?" Chris picked up Mira's wallet and offered her a hand to get up, knowing that he most likely could not handle her weight. (Most certainly not, Mira weighed like a damn horse or more)

"Well ... yes ... yes it is" It was not the best way to introduce Jack to his family ... what the hell ... it must be the worst way.

Metropolis Highway (Sunny Cafe): 12 in the morning.

Vagrand entered the cafe, holding the door to Veronica. Normally organizing meetings outside the town hall was not a good taste for him, but with such a good day and so unusual for February, nothing would happen.

The sunny cafe was almost always full (not in vain was the best cafeteria on the main street of Bahia, and being so close to the town hall and the assembly there were always people coming in), so finding Ritchey would be somewhat complicated. Luckily for him, Veronica was not a shy girl precisely, and without giving it too many laps he climbed into a free chair to browse the restaurant.

"I see it, sir! Last corner table! I know I repeat myself more than a parrot, but surely celebrating such a meeting in one is going to be a good idea?" Veronica did not like to like Ritchey's games, but between meeting in an airship like the last time or a cafeteria, she would always choose a cafeteria.

"Quiet veronica, this meeting is more than just to hear your idea, we are not going to close any deals today, besides an espresso at this time before going to school to pick up my children, I am not made of iron to refuse."

"As you wish, go to the table and I will order the cafes." Vagrand could not help but nod as he dodged tables and customers until he reached his old friend.
Richey had always been a dreamer, a man with a view to the future and who never took a step back. If he wanted to show her something, it should be something very important.

"Ben! how are you? I have not seen you for a thousand years!" The seat next to Ritchey was empty, but he had a bag on top, which Vagrand interpreted that the meeting would be with another person. "Do not answer, no need, I see in your eyes that you are tired and happy at the same time! Typical of old Ben!"

"You will never change, will not you?" Vagrand sat facing him, leaving his arms crossed over his chest and leaning back slightly. "What did you want to show me?"

"First of all, I want you to know that this time I have put all the meat on the grill and I will not accept a no answer!" Ritchey took out his tablet and opened a file of what appeared to be a map of Bahia. "All this is assuming that Hannah's move is going well, but I have total confidence in it, so I'm going to move forward."

"You can not talk so loud ... if you wanted to talk about those issues because we have not been to my office?"

"Shhhh, old Ben, this is too big to show you in your office! What you see right now you recognize, no?"

"Is Bahia del Sol, the city of which I am mayor, where does this take us?"

"Well, when Bahia achieves its goal, this city will be too small for so many people who will want to move! We will need to take Bahia to a new level to show the world who we are!" Ritchey had always been someone very lively, but today especially he was euphoric. "My new head of architects, my right eye has finished what would come as the map of the future! I could not wait to show you."

"You never told me you had a new head of architects ... and much less that it was your right eye."

"I promoted her at the beginning of the year, and I plan to take her to the top! And you get into it!"Ritchey opened a new file and the map of Bahia changed brutally. The city almost doubled in all directions, even entering the sea. A gigantic city full of huge white buildings as if they had come out of a drawing of a futuristic city, full of parks, squares, roads turned into transparent tubes to not take space from the walkers. A gigantic new port full of electromagnetic crane systems, without any visible chimney. Bright suburbs and so well organized that from above they looked like squares. An idyllic, futuristic and dreamy city. "Here Bahia del sol! The first metropolis of the new century!"

"Ritchey ... I have no words ... as you have-"

"Ben ben, I have everything planned and prepared, my team of architects, engineers and my construction teams are all ready, I just need Hannah to fulfill our dream and start the construction of Bahia del Sol 2.0!"

Before Vagrand said anything, Elsa came out of the women's bathroom and approached the table while drying her hands in a handkerchief. "Ritchey, when it comes- he is already here ..."

Vagrand was also nervous. He knew everything about Elsa and what it was like, but he did not expect to meet her in person so soon. The people who knew him knew that Vagrand was not the best actor in history, and for something as simple as pretending he did not know Hannah he had been preparing it for two years. Unfortunately, the situation required improvisation.
"Elsa, this is Benjamin, mayor of Bahia and we have to sell the idea we are preparing! Benjamin, this is Elsa-" Ritchey winked at him to act naturally "My new chief architect and the main designer of Bahia 2.0 "

"It is a pleasure, Mr. Mayor, as Ritchey has said, I am the main designer of Bahia 2.0, although sincerely this idea came from when I was studying architecture, so until now they were only sketches and plans of half-finished streets." Elsa seemed so different from the Elsa I had seen and heard from recordings, more calm and serious. "I know it sounds utopian to create a completely new city, ecologically clean and with such an unusual design, but Ritchey has made me share it and study it with the other architects and engineers, so we have a viability percentage. reports of architects who have worked in the construction of the current bay of Bahia, reports on experts in the history of Bahia and how the project respects the history of Bahia and many more reports ... emmm .... "Elsa started to take folder after folder of his bag, passing them to Vagrand and looking for something more.

"What Elsa wants to say is that we have the approval of all kinds of people from Bahia, so all that is missing would be the confirmation of the government of the city and the government of the United States, something that would not be very difficult to achieve, Am I wrong, Ben? "

Vagrand began to look at the calculations of investment and budgets, which although astronomical, counting with the help of as many companies how Ben say, did not seem very crazy. "That depends on President Salome and Washington, not just on my ... Miss Elsa, allow me the question, where did this idea come from?"

"I will be sincere Mr. Mayor, when I moved to Bahia 6 years ago, I started with this as a way to go out and get to know Bahia, learn about its history and see how everything works!" Elsa took a breath and looked at the map of Bahia 2.0 "The idea of r03;r03;a city built for humans and non-humans to live in harmony seemed so curious and interesting ... and it has not been until she came to my life that I have taken up this idea."

"She, who. is. she.?" Vagrand was beginning to get nervous and talk like a robot, not knowing how to pretend he did not know Elsa was talking about Hannah.

"Do you talk about Hannah, no?" Veronica arrived just at the right time, sitting next to Vagrand and leaving the coffee in front of her.

"Veronica, you did not know you worked with the mayor!" Elsa sighed with relief, and decided to return to her story. "As Veronica said, a month or so ago I met Hannah, a giantess of third growth ... The girl ... is awesome! She's cute, smart, gorgeous, is ..." Richey had to step on her so that Do not stop in your narrative to fantasize with Hannah. "What I wanted to say, is that as the days have passed by his side and after reforming my apartment so that it was comfortable, I realized something."

"What. if. we. can. know.?" Vagrand was also stepped on by Veronica to stop looking like a robot.

"Bahia is not adapted for extrahumans, not for all at least." Vagrand and Veronica looked at her strangely, not expecting that development. "I mean, it's not just for Hannah and when she's between 30 and 40 feet, this city is tough for the extra-human over 10 feet, it's complicated for the extra-human of aquatic species, it's complicated for the extra-human slime variant by the number of drains and the sewage system that it has, it is complicated for the nocturnal extrahuman by the public lighting system... In general... this city is not as wonderful as it could be! And that makes me very angry! "

"Seen that way ... our slogan may not be as ideal as it seems ..." Vagrand started mentally spinning around, trying to remember everything Elsa had mentioned.

"For that reason I know that this city can become much more! A paradise where humans and humans live in perfect harmony and equality! The paradise that Calia Sol dreamed! And we would build ..." Elsa took a breath to release the big bomb of the meeting. "In 5 years"

"Like ?! 5 years remodeling an entire city and doubling its size? There's even a section that goes into the sea! 5 years seems like a nonsense to me!" Veronica could not hide her dismay as she clicked on the map to emphasize what she said.

"Veronica ... 5 years." Ritchey took out what appeared to be a contract signed by innumerable companies of all kinds. "I only need two more signatures, one from the president of the United States, and another from you, Mayor Vagrand, and in five years we will live in a utopia that would make New York or Tokyo ridiculous."

"And where would all the inhabitants of Bahia be relocated during the works? And once after this Bahia 2.0 is built? That part you have not explained it" Vagrand continued looking at the map even without words.

"We have prepared a construction by districts, having contracted thousands of prefabricated houses and entire neighborhoods ready to be built in the" Raijin esplanade ", to the north of here, once the residential buildings were built each family would be granted a house in the place equivalent to where they were in the old bay! Ben, dude, you really did not think you would have planned it?"

"In addition, during the time it took to build each section of the city each family relocated would receive a salary directly from industries "Community Home" for the inconvenience!" Elsa smiled as she tried to give assurance to her words.

"You can see that you have worked ... I can take all this, I have to show it to my town council team and to ... basically everyone ... I also notice that something so big will require a popular vote, so I can not give you security . " Vagrand tried to be as correct and as serious as possible, hiding his illusion for this "new" Bahia.

"Take everything you need Ben, our dreams will be built on the promise of a better tomorrow! The people of Bahia will love it!"

"If you'll excuse me ... Veronica help me please" Veronica nodded and took half of the folders that Elsa had taken, leaving the other half to Vagrand. "Good morning to you both, I will keep you informed."

While Vagrand and Veronica left the premises, Elsa could not take the pressure off her stomach. Never in her life had she been so tense. But the dream of building a city where his beloved girlfriend of 15 feet and future 30 deserved it. And she would fight for her dream.