Ocean's Breath Plateau [B] Remember when

Ponderosa was the third to arrive earthside. It was a disturbing experience, being pushed and shoved out of your cozy, warm home with an all you can eat buffet for 9 weeks. No worries. When she hit the ground, and the wet covering had been removed from her body, she cried, but her mother wouldn’t let her cry for long. She couldn’t see, couldn’t hear, even herself, but she could feel, taste the milk when she was put to momma’s breast. Her cry stopped now that she was satisfied. Beside her, she could feel warmth, other squirming little things. She didn’t know what they were, but instinct told her they were family, nothing to fear.

Even though she lost the warmth of the womb, she gained much more, and she would only understand all of it once she grows, develops. But for now, she was content, long as what she had wasn’t taken away, like her newly discovered love of milk.