When was I infected?
Was it when we first entered the atmosphere, ship hurtling towards the planet, foreign air leaking in through the torn hull?
Was it when my head first breached the water as I dove into the ocean?
Was it when I ate my first peeper, or drank the water from a bladderfish?
Was I condemned from the beginning? Or could this have been avoided?
What could have saved me, but to have not ended up here at all?

















