Confessions of a Five-Chambered Heart
“There is only a passing, brief glint of panic when the process has reached the point that cognitive integrity is finally, and almost irrevocably, compromised. During all the interminable months of psychological prep and antemorphic therapy, Ttisa was repeatedly trained for this moment, against this moment, and both the shhakizsa midwives and her human counselors have taught her meditation techniques for making the transition with as little trauma as possible. But, most importantly, as her mind and the mind of the surrogate suddenly bleed one into the other, a carefully constructed series of posthypnotic images is triggered. And Ttisa finds herself staring down from suborbit at a living planet that might be Earth, and a muddy, winding river that might be the Mississippi, or perhaps the Nile, or the Ganges, or no river that has ever flowed any where but across the floodplains of her imagination. She sees that the river has reached the sea, as rivers do, and here is the place where sedim...ent-laden freshwater collides with the brine, where an opaque torrent the color of almonds interfaces with blue-green saltwater.MoreLess
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