The innocent

I curled up in the warm, soft darkness, as always when I woke up from a deep sleep. My cozy nest swayed gently, as it did every time I felt like moving around. This time it rocked a bit more, which startled me from my peaceful rest. I looked around curiously, but I was still surrounded by the usual blurry darkness. Well, well… nothing special – I thought, and stretched my long, slender legs. – Hmm… that felt good. But lately, I definitely feel my home is getting cramped. I remember it being frighteningly spacious at first. I could hardly see from one wall to the other. Now, with every move, I bump into something. It’s unfair!

This constant rocking, too. I almost get nauseous from all this swaying. Hey!… I’m not sleepy anymore. Hmm… no answer – I poked the soft wall of my room as a test, and the world started shaking even more. So much movement became almost scary. – Ouch… Le…ave…me…alo…one. – Look, I don’t even understand my own thoughts. The sounds coming through the wall became deeper in tone and louder, while the shaking intensified to an uncomfortable level. I got a little scared. This was definitely something new. The fear and the jolting were both new things to me. I didn’t know what to make of them, but a new curiosity soon distracted me. A bubble appeared in front of my nose. It wasn’t big. Just an ordinary-sized bubble. – What on earth is this madness? And what is it doing in my room? – Then another bubble appeared just below the previous one, and they both started moving upward calmly. The strangest thing about it was that while the room around me shook without stopping, these two air globes moved evenly and peacefully upward, as if they were not in this world but were visible from some parallel dimension. The monotonous sounds filtering in from outside became sharp and filled with pain. It was almost as if the whole wall was producing the sound. Of course, I could feel it coming from the ceiling. – My…head…is…killing me. I want silence!! – Suddenly, alongside the previous sound, I heard a strange popping sound. It was definitely excited, which brought some variety next to the painful screeching. The shaking of my room was becoming more and more annoying. It might collapse on my head in the end. – Help! – what will happen to me now?

The answer came quickly and proved to be terrifying. A whole bunch of bubbles started floating upwards. They just kept coming and coming, unstoppably. And they were getting bigger and bigger. The only problem was that they didn’t go away but started to gather on the ceiling, right above my head. Moreover, as more and more bubbles appeared, the existing ones began to merge into a large whole. – Oh dear. This something is getting bigger as the bubbles grow it. AAAAAA. And there’s less and less room for my head because of it. – I was really scared. I had been living peacefully in this room until now. No one asked for this change. I didn’t understand what was going on, but I was definitely against it. Meanwhile, the shaking turned into pushing without any transition. The wall behind me made a move and hit me with tremendous force. – Leave me alone! – I yelled at the wall, but of course, I had no effect. The wall just kept pushing, and the bubbles kept coming. From one side the wall, and from above my head, all those bubbles. – This is a conspiracy!!! – I got angry. Then I noticed that the bubbles were coming through a large gap in the floor, which I hadn’t noticed before because of my legs.

Oh!… Don’t hurt me!! – I shouted in a trembling voice, full of fear. – I am innocent!…

…A lamb born today.