✨🌊 prologue & chapter 1
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Prologue.
Night.
Abyssinia, Leeward Shore.
A shack. The constellation known as ‘The Siren’ is overhead.’
A child is being born. The mother is Aephagia, a dark-skinned women with round jiggling thighs resembling a pair of makatane melons. She is heaving the child out towards the waiting arms of the midwife, who is drunk but hiding it very well. The child’s father is perched on the ground next to the midwife, ready to assist. He glows pale in the firelight. With a final moan, Aephagia, successfully expels the baby from her womb in a spurt of firebrick liquid and a tangle of tubes. The child comes out shining, wet like the glimmering hide of a sperm whale breaching out of the water. Aephagia sighs, and immediately closes her legs, lies back, and pushes a breath out from deep within her pursed lips.
“What kind is it?” she murmurs.