Greatwater Lake everything seems o[m]inous

Liezhal Bint-Zharille was a good sport about her birth. In fact, she seemed downright amenable to the process -- helplessly stunned into a senseless sort of awe throughout all the contractions, first breaths, cleaning, et cetera -- right up until instinct drove her to feed. This was when she began to quickly learn the essential three W’s of infancy: writhing, wriggling, and whinging.

(Of course, two of those things are the same act, but no one has ever said that being a baby is efficient.)

Soothed almost at once by the taste of milk, Liezhal hunkered down amongst her siblings into a fitful first sleep out in the new world.