An egg lay in a shallow nest of dirt and grasses, caressed on each side by the soft flowering heads of foxtail millet as the evening winds battered it to and fro. A little life stirs within the egg, listening and watching through the shell the world it will soon join.
A tremor came first, strong, unsettling, rippling through the shell of the egg over and over again. The sound was deafening, like thunder, though no light came through, a cacophony of sound unknown following closely from ...