New Bahia del Sol, Secondary Education Institute "Ocean View":
08:00 in the afternoon, Day 12 of Full Solar Era.
The wind was warm, and it was loaded with great promises for the holidays. Nueva Bahia was not a very frenzied city, although from the outside it might seem otherwise. The area of r03;r03;the cathedral district if it was, but when you concentrate much of the administrative buildings and businesses, is something within the expected.
Not that Elsa had wanted to concentrate everything on a single point, because the entire coast was full of skyscrapers and building-communities as far as the eye could see. It was something more... product of chance.
Dalia walked to the exit of the Hightschool, where she sat to wait the tram with many other students who had stayed late, either in sports or artistic clubs. Even in a crowd, Dalia stood out as always.
Although it wasnt her fault! Genetics had given her good and bad things, more bad than good, unfortunately:
Redhead but with her hair full of natural blond highlights, Extreme height even for a third growth giantess, grown too soon but relatively well developed (Or that Dalia wanted to believe, it was no surprise when in the women's changing rooms some classmate was left gaping at the size of a bra, of shoes or panties...) ...
Dalia sighed, holding back her inner monologue to avoid depressing herself. After so many months in the club of Chronomancia it was already a habit to start narrating introductions in their spare time... strange as that sounds.
"Dalia? Dalia, answer! Do you get on the tram or are you waiting for something else?" The construct reviser of the tram clicked its claws, drawing the attention of the giantess and the look and giggles of her companions. Dalia simply nodded, getting up from the seat and passing her student bracelet through the ticket reader.
Although every public vehicle was prepared to house an adult third growth giantess or an Iloa of the seas, Dalia preferred to sit down while her body allowed her in a medium seat, even if they were a little tight.
In one of those free medium seats Dalia found her place, sitting against the window and turning on the C-com music player. Mom had told her many times about human smartphones, but even with that, the redheaded giantess (half blonde) couldnt understand how someone would prefer a device dependent on electricity to a C-com! They are much more comfortable, they are permanently connected to the internet and last days and days, they are fully operational!
The metal voice of the construct brought Dalia back from another monologue.
"Dalia, your older sister was here yesterday and she left her scarf, can you take her? I would leave this in the tram, but the construct that makes the night shift will take her to the lost property department if this stays here another day! I cant do that to a member of your family!"
The reviser left the scarf on the seat next to Dalia, without waiting for an answer before continuing to check that all passengers were properly seated.
"Dont fuck me! I'm not going home!... well, I have to carry this junk all over the city! Stupid Sarah!" Dalia opened her backpack, struggling to get the huge scarf between the books. "Who's been blowing in the summer? Of course I could only be Miss "I'm too cool to dress differently to my style and I want to wear a scarf even with this heat"... you know? PFFFFFFFFFFF" Dalia blows a raspberry to anyone in particular, while she managed to close the backpack without being very clear as.
The classmate seated in front of her couldnt avoid turning around before the "nickname" said by the giantess. "What you said doesnt make any sense! You can not put such a long nick to someone, you break the meaning of nickname!"
"She's my sister! She's lucky and can be grateful that I bother to articulate complete syllables in her name! Miss PFFFF is as good a nickname as any!"
"You're lucky to be Lady Sarah's little sister! That will open many doors for you in the future!"
"The only door that I want her to open is the one in the bathroom when she, that slut, doesnt hold it for me to enter! Any other door I'll open it myself! I'm Dalia-"
"DALIA REYES WOOD, THE MIRACULOUS GIRL! WE ALREADY KNOW IT!" All the students in the tram car shouted at the same time, stealing the words from the mouth of the giantess.
".... PFFFFFFFF" Dalia leaned back in the tight seat, looking out the window with her arms crossed.
District of the cathedral, tram station "Archive":
8:15 in the afternoon.
Dalia got under the last of the car, far away from where any other student had come down to go home. Although the construct was not going to say anything (better not, because it's just a construct... a replaceable one) from this point any GUN agent who saw it would notify her aunt Valeria.
In that case, there were three particularly bad options that could happen:
- The warning was taken by the godmother Bolt, which made it impossible to escape without being detected by the harpy.
- That the warning came to the aunt Fiona, that although it would be something more feasible a flight, the protoslime isnt one of those that surrender easily.
- And last and most important, mom took the warning directly and went to meet the giantess. Elsa had eyes all over Bahia, and it was much harder on the punishments than godmother Bolt... Avoid mom, and the town hall were the clearest objectives for a proper mission by Dalia.
"Little bug! what are you doing here? It's too late for you to wander around the cathedral district! You dont know what..." Honestly, as soon as Dalia heard Aunt Fee's voice, whatever the fairy said vanished in the abyss of fear.
Dalia ran to the bench where the fairy rested, throwing herself on her knees to beg. "Please, aunty, dont tel to mom or mommy that I'm here!"
The fairy couldnt stop laughing at her niece, while she put another fried potato in her mouth. "Easy, little bug! I should not be here either, I'm hiding from Alanis!"
"Why? ... oh ... of course ... you should be at the town hall ..." The fairy winked at her niece, affirming her criminal act. "And how do you know she willnt look for you at the station?"
"I have 5 years of practice in fleeing important meetings! I know where Alanis is looking for me and where not! Also... you shouldnt judge my choice of places You have come to the station closest to the Town Hall, as if you were a novice in the art of being where you shouldnt! You dont remember my lessons?"
"Of course, Rule 12: Always be in the most obvious place where they wouldnt look for ridiculous that would be!"
"That's my niece! And now go do what you have to do, the next tram that leaves to go to your house arrives in 34 minutes, so you have to be here by then or Elsa will leave the town hall before your get home!"
Dalia nodded, jumping up and running toward the exit. Fee decided not to tell her anything about the scarf that hung from the backpack, thinking how funny it would be when she realized it. The fairy put another potato in her mouth, smiling and praying for her niece's safety.
Dalia ran and ran through the streets of the district, avoiding any GUN agent or security camera on her way. The giantess would be too big for her age, but Dalia was very proud that even with a few extras too large her agility remained intact. (Surely the product of so many hours running, falling, jumping, falling more, getting into corners where it would be impracticable to manage to pass them, being stuck in most of those corners, etc etc etc)
The giantess climbed one of the small buildings that surrounded the Archive, using her own agility and the human-sized fire escape for it.
"Well... let me play the right music... C-Com, play Life Will Change!"
The C-com went on, activating Dalia's wireless headphones and playing the song. "Perfect! Dalia, the phantom thief, on the move!"