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Scout finds a girl in a chamber of ice in giant world

One day Kayte and Tennyce found themselves in their first argument.
Lots of heated words were said and loads of energy was spent.
“If you feel that way,” said Tennyce, “Why not run back to your Mummy?”
“If she hadn’t saved you,” Kayte replied, “You’d now be in my tummy!”

With euphoria replaced by such a strong intensive fight,
Tennyce looked on their first meeting with a burst of second sight;
That she would have gone ahead with it. By now they’d come to bicker.
If he left her, she might do it yet. So he would have to trick her.

So he met with Stawmi, next time Kayte was with her Mom, to chat.
Tennyce said, “I never realized she was such a selfish brat.
I was so in love, I overlooked the fact that any gumption
For romance was just her substitute for culinary consumption.

Could you take me back to earth, where I can get my feelings fixed,
And inform Kayte’s Mom and Kayte I’m going to see this eighty-sixed.
Since her giant size made sure our dating wasn’t really fated,
It will be as though we broke up when we’d really only dated.”

In the meantime, Bryce’s neighbor Scout made use of his new gift
(His own amulet) while up in a balloon, which went adrift.
He’d been taken up with Bryce’s friend named Rover, and Alexis,
Who had hired it. With his amulet, he took them through the nexus.

They arrived above the colonies, and gladly chose to float.
It was just as nice an outing as their outing on the boat.
Only this time Scout was there as well. They flew it out still farther.
Scout was keen to walk on land, but staying up was what they’d rather.

So they dropped him off beside a giant cave, and floated high.
Rover kissed Alexis Merrilong, just under giant sky.
She was finally in love with him, and Rover was delighted,
As the giant landscape down below was clear for nearer sighted.

Scout explored the cave, and saw a sleeping giant girl in ice,
In a chamber, with atomic power. He rolled a dozen dice,
Metaphorically, by pushing all the buttons on the panel.
It was like the plots of movies on a science fiction channel.

Then the ice began to melt and seep through cracks, until she thawed,
And explained to him the reason she had had herself so stored:
“I was born some decades past, and my friend Aradee was seeing
One boy your size. Once I asked him how to find a tiny being.

He entrusted to me secrets he had not told Aradee.
He had come from future colonies, which I might live to see.
But I knew that if I waited, I would end up more than fifty.
This was one sure way to save my years, if I was ever thrifty.

So I asked a science expert friend of mine to house and freeze
Me in this suspended animation. Could you tell me, please,
Why he didn’t come to wake me as he promised, since you settle
On our planet now, no larger than a pretty flower petal.”

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