It was bliss, floating safe and warm, surrounded by a dim red glow, and only heartbeats and your wonderful Mummah’s voice can be heard. Occasionally you bump into one of your siblings their tiny limbs boop you in your nose while they swim but sometimes you both hug. It’s the most bestest thing your tiny underdeveloped brain knows.
Today is different, Mummah’s heartbeat is fast and sounds in pain, soon she screams. The sibling you were hugging is dragged away along with the wonderful floating feeling, and is replaced with a terrible pressure, it’s suffocating. You wriggle your tiny limbs in vain as the flesh walls contract and force you forward.
Squeezed through a very narrow opening your front half reaches the outside world, it’s cold and awful, the safe red glow is now gone only darkness, and no other heartbeats, only yours and the cacophony of excited voices and labored screams. A strange wet thing covers you, the smell and voice are all wrong who is this?
You thrash as best you can as the opening squeezes your middle painfully, the shock causes you to expel mucus and fluid out your mouth and rear. You feel your other siblings pressed up against your back, desperately trying to crawl forward but they’re stuck trapped behind you.
You can only scream and cry, where is Mummah?! Why isn’t she here?! Why isn’t she saving us!? A gruff voice and hot breath assault your face, before you can even comprehend what’s happening something sharp clamps down upon your head and begins to yank.
This is it, You’re dying. Some horrible monster has claimed your whole family. You feel a white hot pain in your head, and then you’re falling and you land on a vial warm moist pile, the shock from the pain and the fall, all you can do is chirp and flail. Your sobs are muffled by a sudden torrent of hot slimy fluid.
Weekly you try to swim out of the mass of slime. You can feel your siblings with you but you can only hear one heartbeat along with yours. Coughing and wretching you emerge from the slime but now you’re being conveyed to another location.
You’re placed in a pile with a few other familiar smells and sounds, You hear her your Mummah! She cleans you and your siblings but she’s sobbing, you don’t know why. But it matters not. Now she’s feeding her wonderful children, the pain and the terror seem so far away now. You’re safe with your Mummah and your siblings.
You don’t remember falling asleep roused by angry shouts. And in an instant, you and your siblings are thrown from your safe, warm pile. Nothing but terrible Awful shouting and crying.
But amongst it you hear it, your sister, she’s screaming terrified, peeping for rescue. But then a tiny squeak escapes her, and you smell it, her blood.
In an instant, the world erupts into screaming, snarling, sobbing, chirping, and awful animalistic sounds of biting and clawing. The awful metallic aroma of more blood fills your nose, you’ll hear your Mummah pleading crying. Two of your sisters are behind you shivering and peeping for Mummah, your brother has clung to your flank flapping his useless wings.
You crawl blindly, peeping to your sister. Her scent lost, you just crawl while the world shatters around you. Dragging yourself with your brother still on your back you bump into something, it’s her! You nudge her and cry attempting to get a response. But at least shallow breathing can be heard.
Hugs! Hugs will fix it! Throwing your weak little legs around her you cry and chirp! Your poor brother having exhausted himself trying to fly away falls from your flank into the bloody puddle where he squirms and peeps pathetically. But your sister moves now, she croaks in pain, bloody mucus bubbling from her nose and mouth. She shakes and convulses, rolling to her back she warbles an awful sound.
It’s to much! You are just a baby, what is Mummah doing!? With a scream and a dull thud all but the sobs and chirps of you and your siblings go silent. Somehow you know, Mummah is laying on the floor right in front of you.