Blackwater Islands CHIM

The beginning of everything was not a memory Anathema would carry for any length of time. She came into existence as fragile and inconsequential to the world as any other newborn, and as wholly unprepared for the life that awaited her.

It was the sound of water she knew first, not through her ears which were still sealed but through the vibrations of the rain and the sea and the waterfall cascading over the den entrance. This sound would follow her for the rest of her life. Anathema crept closer to her mother's warmth, when she had been cleaned and settled, and in her first moments she simply existed. She did not sleep, nor did she move. She only took in the feeling of the water all around her.