Macro Monthly

By Siren Stone

In the rubble of a recently outgrown city, it can be hard not to liken the emergence of a new macro to a cyclone. Both bring with them an astounding repair bill, both are far beyond the scale of most base-sized people to affect, and both have an active community of thrill-seekers chasing them across the country for science, clout, or pure titillation.

I sat down to put myself at head height with Laura Chaudhari, a professional macro chaser for 12 years, to talk to her about this growing subculture of growth-fanatics. Edited for length and clarity, we talk about Laura’s origins as a macro chaser, the motivations behind macro chasing, and just how she can predict where an emergence is going to be.

I think the best place to begin here is why start macro chasing?

“Just for me, or for everyone?”

How about we start with just you, darling?

“I’ve always been interested, but until I started trying I never realised I could do it professionally. I come from a big city, so we’ve all had the opportunity to see some real good growth spurts firsthand. I would get obsessed, following news and other macro chasers on the internet for days, but then I’d move on. I was just out of uni in an accounting job when Lizzie Bauer put her cock straight through my office building right in front of me and I realised what I was missing. I’ve never looked back since!”

That sort of experience puts things in perspective. I assume others have a similar story? Just wanting to get up close and personal with a real macro?

“Plenty of us do! It’s hard to keep the meetings from getting off track whenever we all remember the path we’re tracking is someone eighty meters tall with a butt eighty meters wide! Even sitting here, this close to you, it’s pretty, uh, distracting.”

Me? Really? You sure you wouldn’t prefer me a bit bigger?

“Oh, wow, those are… Uh, I mean, a lot of us, we really like macros like that – like, I mean, really like! But plenty of us really are in it for the science, at least a bit, or only came in for the danger, and money is always an object, of course, but a really solid part of the chasers I’ve met are here for the chance to go macro themselves.”

Are they successful?

“I don’t want to say it never works. I’ve even seen it a few times! And lot of macros have some way of sharing – milk and ejaculate can sometimes carry growth, just sort of passively emitting whatever made them grow, sometimes if they really like you they’ll pick you up and show you whatever helped them emerge. Speaking of, if it’s a chemical spill or glowing meteor or ancient book or some other physical thing I’ve heard of chasers getting their own hands on that sort of thing. It doesn’t happen often, though.”

“Most of the time, we’re just too small for a macro to take notice of us unless we get lucky enough to talk to one just as she’s starting to grow, and anything around to cause growth usually disappears or gets snatched up real quick. It burns a lot of girls out, making it to an emergence and hugging some mysterious gem only to find out it was one use only.”

You’ve been talking about these chasers with a bit of distance. You don’t want to be big yourself?

“Maybe a bit, but I wouldn’t want to be huge. There’s just this feeling of awe you can only get from seeing someone so much bigger than you, someone so sublime they could be your whole world. If I got big like you, really big, I – gosh, I get the appeal, but it’d be that much harder to find someone who can give me that same joy of being insignificant next to a mountain!”

“I could see myself enjoying being a bit bigger – like you at the start of the interview big. I think just knowing that I’m bigger than normal would make getting dwarfed hit that much harder. Did it hurt when the chair collapsed?”

Don’t worry, you barely notice the drop at this size. You said it’s rare to get to an emergence soon enough to talk to someone in the process of growing, but you do have one or two interviews of exactly that. How do you know when someone is going to start growing?

“There are a lot of patterns to look out for. A lot of it is boring statistical stuff – macros usually show up right in the middle of cities or out in the middle of nowhere, for example, so we make heat maps for that. Then we just keep an eye on things in hotspots and look for the right conditions. Chemical spills, museum acquisitions, weather events, prophesied celestial alignments for the returns of ancient gods and apocalyptic upheavals. Academic funding, too – do you know how many macros show up because some poor scientist gets her funding cut and has to test her theories on herself? It’s a pretty big minority!”

With that much skill and experience in tracking down macro growth spurts as they happen, how many times have you managed to surpass that original experience with Lizzie Bauer?

“I’ve had a few that were about as close with good planning and luck, but I really treasure the moments I get even closer than that! I was actually lucky enough to be in the same building when Hao Xiaowen grew a few months ago! I was wedged between her tits while she was smothering Melbourne!”

Is that as close as you’re aiming to get to the macros you follow, or are you still hoping for even closer contact – somewhere more intimate, for example?

Unfortunately, by this point I was taking up so much space that Laura was completely muffled by my left thigh and unable to respond verbally. Her nonverbal communication skills are truly excellent, however, and I can be sure enough to translate her subsequent actions as a very enthusiastic yes.