"You fool! I told you to the right! Are you even too stupid to tell left from right?" Ellen fumed. "Look what you've done! That bitch is now ten times taller! You... you... aaargh!"

"I did turn it to the right!" Henry cried back. "Here look!"

He turned the knob of the now depleted Enlarger clockwise. Ellen looked at it and slapped her forehead.

"Oh, dammit! With "right" I meant counter-clockwise! The lower half of the knob is then turned right. You thought I meant the upper part, right? Fuck! I should've said "clockwise" or "counter-clockwise", damn!"

Henry sat down, exhausted. He had run like mad back towards the van as soon as he had realized the blind girl was growing like weed instead of shrinking. Luckily, he had parked it quite a distance from the city's center, and although Lara could cover the distance in no time, she kept walking in circles, safely away from the van.

"Now what?" Henry asked, tired.

"We can do nothing but wait until the Enlarger had reloaded and try again," Ellen replied. "And hope that girl doesn't change directions and tramples our home to the ground."

"How long?" Henry asked, even if he knew the answer. He felt terrible. He rethought of their original plan, to make someone grow, about 1,000 feet tall, to destroy the university they despised so much, kill those inside and that's it. But not let that person grow miles tall, kill thousands of innocents and destroy the entire city. What had they done?

"About half an hour," Ellen said in a soft tone. She felt the same way Henry did. The university, yes, but the center of Salt Lake City, no.

"Half an hour! Do you know how much destruction she has caused by then? Fuck!" Henry exclaimed.

"I know! I can't change it! Let hope she won't kill us too," Ellen nearly shrieked.

"When this is over, we must turn ourselves in." Henry stood up. "It's the least we can do."

Ellen, crying now, nodded.


At two miles, Lara's growth had stopped. But not the destruction she unwillingly caused.

"Why doesn't anyone help me?" she cried out loud.

Lara's voice again shattered countless windows, rocked cars and buildings and blew clouds away. A few skyscrapers in her vicinity even collapsed.

The blind girl trampled the center of Salt Lake City beyond recognition. The Utah State Capitol disappeared under her toes, its dome dwarfed even by Lara's pinky toe. The Salt Lake Temple crumbled like made of reddish sand as the blind girl stumbled next to it. She didn't have to step on the 222 foot structure to destroy it. The impact of her footfalls was enough to crumble it. The temple broke in two pieces, and, under loud rumbling and mulching smoke, slowly turned into a pile of rubble, not unlike the rest of the buildings in the center.

Parks, like the Place Heritage Park, looked like footprint-shaped dried lakes, dotted with the leftovers of whatever got caught under the two-mile high giantess' feet. Fleeing people, either on foot or in their cars were squashed by the scores. And no one could get away, since the streets, if still intact, were clogged with traffic and didn't offer an escape route.  

Lara occasionally bent down and felt the ground. Her enormous hands demolished everything at the slightest touch. She grabbed a building, it was the -already damaged- One Utah Center, and pressed it to crumbs between her huge fingers. The granite of this skyscraper was pulverized as the blind girl quizzingly squeezed it, wondering what it was.
Lara concluded she had accidentally walked into an alleyway, were a lot of debris and garbage was dumped. Because she felt the small, rock-like stuff with her hands and under her feet, smelling the debris as she smelled her fingers, and still got no answers to her continuous calls for help, she deduced she was where no one could see or hear her.