The Birth of Urana

“(...)Even stunned by the effects of the wave, I dug as deep as I could, non-stop, plunging deep into the sandbar, hoping that my hormonal mark would not be captured by the patrol. I knew that with my body burning because of the extreme amount of biochemical changes I had been working on, my presence was detectable from afar by the new recognition system recently incorporated by the patrols.

And even though there, beneath the earth, I had some advantage, I would never be able to escape the occasional onslaughts of an entire patrol. In the state of the transition I was in, it was not yet possible for me to simply undo and spread my body through the earth. That’s why I rush to get deeper and deeper. (...) / Translation by Jéssica Oliveira e Bruna Barros