Introduction

Darkness. Warmth. This is what the chick felt, its form tucking neatly against the cozy walls of the egg of which contained it. For three and a half months the infant had been incubating, grown from just a few cells clumped together near the start to the three foot long fuzzy neonate it was now. One might say that it had been enjoying this thirteen week sleep, but unfortunately for the chick now was time for this serenity to be broken..