ABSTRACT
The light of my first day was not very clear, it was liquid and mushy. From the internal aquatic environment, I burst out onto the outside of mother, straight into the girded space between the translucent water surface and the dark, muddy bottom where my mother’s tail was now drooping, creating a mixture of mud, seaweed particles and patches of bodily fluids. I was pushed to the surface, there I tore through a new barrier – the second in as few moments – and inhaled deeply, nostrils open, flooding my lungs with fresh air.
