Beginnings can be bewildering.
Dry instead of wet. Air, not liquid.
Loud, bright, blurred. Not quiet, dark, closed.
Shout.Shout.Shout.
Then listen.
Soft, calm, susurration.
Familiar, comforting.
Wet, then dry, then prickly outside.
(Calm, gentle, murmur.)
Warm, wrapped, held close, familiar.
Suckle, snuggle, soothed.
Stretch, dream, cough, sneeze.
(What was that? Everything goes WHAAA - then not. What?)
Snuffle, soothed. Cold on skin then soft murmur, familiar sounds, gentle rocking.
Dream again of before, then snuggled, suckled, soothed.
(Calm, gentle, murmur.)
Hiccough, taste again, snuffle.
Sudden jerk, soothing sounds, now familiar.
Strange people, strange sounds, all new, all bewildering.
So sleep, soothed, gentle sounds of familiar beings, remembered from before, a fading before.
