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There was a sound coming out of her The stenographer was recording it It was dark in the small room and she could see the sound waves on the screen pulsing Was it a good pulse? It was hard to say Was it louder now she was bigger? People called it getting taller but she was getting bigger She was growing in perfect proportion It wasn’t like she was stretching The tallness was coming from a push that seemed to come from her feet Her feet would get bigger and then her ankles would get bigger and all the way up her body Unnoticeable to the human eye But often she would wake up and sit up and she would know she was taller Maybe it was happening equally over time, maybe it was happening in spurts She had been to an endocrinologist She suspected they all had Hormones made you grow and something had turned on all their hormones Everyone was trying to find out why It was a multimillion-dollar business because it was throwing things off in an uncomfortable way All the people that were getting bigger were normal people None of the rich or powerful people were getting taller None of them So when her boss had to tell her she was making a hash of things That maybe she needed to get better at her job – her boss found it hard because of her size Her boss had complained that he felt threatened She wasn’t sure why her boss would feel that way, at least she didn’t want her boss to feel that way She wanted her boss to feel comfortable around her But he was right to be frightened She was bigger than him by a lot and she was strong That was a secret she was keeping She was so much stronger She’d broken a couple of things None of the powerful people wanted to feel like this so a lot of the powerful people were putting a lot of money into research – to try and stop it Just stop it