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The people of Chicago could only look to the sky as what has become at least a weekly occurrence started up once again. Well, to them it might as well be the sky, but in reality it was a 14 year old boy, the tip of his finger to be precise.
Giants weren't too unusual these days. People just randomly entered growth spurts sometimes, and everyone got on with their lives. Unfortunately for Chicago and the Chynoweth family, Rumo's growth spurt lasted a little longer than normal. So much longer in fact, that there's debate over whether it's even ended yet, as he has become so big that it's hard to measure.
"You guys should really build stuff better. Buildings shouldn't break just from talking!" Rumo shook his head in disappointed as he very gently lowered his finger towards the pillars of smoke to 'fix' things. Now, as you might imagine, Rumo isn't very capable of delicate engineering, so his idea of fixing things is to simply put out the fires by flattening the source and smothering them. While this used to work (or at least not cause too much damage) when he was smaller, Rumo hasn't quite gotten used to his much larger frame and the idea that he'll be flattening an area a dozen city blocks larger than any damage the fire could possibly cause.
As Rumo slowly lowered his finger towards the fire...
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