Ouch. My stomach hurts. Is it my stomach that hurts? No.. I think it's above my stomach. My heart? No, below it, and to the right, not the left.. wait, left? Did the crazy typhoon thing stop.? Hang on, am I alive? Am I underwater? AAA im going to drown! I inhale(?) a mouthful of water and I am just fine. I breathe more water. It feels like when you drink a protein shake, except.. I don't know how to explain it, buttery? Healthy? It's thicker than air, but it seems .. Nourishing? It's not quite water, I'm sure of that much, it seems creamy, but that still doesn't describe it right. I'm going to attempt to describe it as buttered air that's actually water... I.. just realize that I.. already knew this, which also felt strange. I start panicking, so I slow down.. again. I can still feel, I can.. is that it? The previous events reflood my head, kinda like when I realized I already knew I could breathe, and guess what my head does? It gets a pounding headache! Yay for having a human brain in a body it can't fit! Ow.. wait did I guess it right? any(ouch)way, I want to see if my (ow) attempt to keep the fluid in the egg worked. I swish my tail and start swimming, even now it's strange that I have a tail. I'm swimming.. that means that it should have worked, but I make my way up to the top of the egg, and I poke my head back out. brrr, turns out that the goop keeps the heat in, or something like that, because it is cold! I keep my head out though, because I think the reason my headache is worse is because my eyes were growing or adjusting or something. Being out seems to be.. words are having trouble supporting what is happening right now.. stimulating? I have no way to describe it, and I have no way to explain it. I keep my head in the cold actual air as I process my thoughts, and my body processes my eyes.?. I notice that Its exhausting to breathe up here, it's like the difference between humid air and the subzero cold that air seems to become when you're out of breath.(What a weird sentence that I am using to try and explain the unexplainable.) I don't like it much,(more like I can't endure it any longer) so I take another lungful of buttered heater water. Are they even lungs? Then, my hand goes to brush against my stomach and doesn't find anything there. Oh yeah.. I feel around and learn that I am currently a donut. I can feel my insides trying to become one again. Why is there no pai-urp.. I try to stop thinking about it before I throw up.. -can I throw up as this?- um.. my eyes! They don't feel as sealed! Well.. I don't have a better word, it's like putting water on a peeling piece of tape? Ugh these analogies are not helping! Nevermind, the seal is loosening! I slowly and carefully wait for the seal to release enough for me to open my eyes, just a squint, but I hungrily absorb my first beam of sunlight through the crack in my eyes in crack in the eggshell. everything is so bright! I look down where there's less light as I adjust. I am suffocating up here, so I get ready to dive back into the egg goop, and of course I'm going to be dramatic about it because I can. I blink and open my precious eyes even more, and I realize something. I can see color! The egg goop is purple! I admire that, but I have to go under, since I can't endure the air anymore. Okay so now what do I do? I am slowly gaining eyesight, I think the egg goop is nutritious, and maybe heals too, would it also be sterile? Maybe it's not sterile but instead has magic bacteria that heal wounds? now what do I need to do? Oh, my insides.. am I a creature unable to feel pain? No because I have headaches and other pain.. right? I want to try and fix the hole in my stomach. Uh, can I patch it somehow? I look around in the egg with my eyes, which feels wrong after being blind for so long. I don't find anything that I could use, unless I wanted to.. no. I don't have any nonliving thing to patch it up with. There isn't anything else in the egg besides me and my siblings. My siblings look really weird, they have fox ears, but the fur is wet and seems to bunch together to make a scaly(ish) surface, and if I look on myself I can see the same thing. They have paws but they also have a furry thing that stiffens to make it easier to swim, I have it too, they honestly look like foxes made into fish but longer.? I don’t like the hole in my stomach. I feel like I got nowhere, but at least I can see now. Actually see. And not just that—I can see color. The egg goop is purple. My siblings are here, strange fox-fish creatures, just like me, it's odd, but it's nice not being the only one unable to communicate. I never appreciated my sight as much as I could have before. But now? Now I have no idea what I am, what happened to me, or how I’m supposed to fix myself, but at least I can see.

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For now, that has to be enough.. right?