Swiftcurrent Creek homage

This is going to last all of 10 seconds so Mae is fine btw lmfao

All at once Mae knew life; the shifting of everything, the clashing feel of cold air and warm touches. She drew breath. Once, twice. The foreign sensation of it was unwelcome to her, and in an early fit of stubbornness the newborn held her breath. She was very still and very silent.

Alive and healthy, just not breathing. Mae was five seconds old when she first learned how to tell the world, without any words at all, to shove it somewhere the sun doesn't shine.