Welcome to the world
For the umpteenth time, Atkanah winced as she paced around her bedroom, getting ready to sleep. She’d retired from dinner early, not feeling really hungry as painful pangs in her lower back had kept bothering her all throughout the evening. She’d excused herself, taken a shower and left for bed early. When she was changing into her sleeping gown, an especially painful muscle spasm had hit her and she’d had sat up in bed. She’d hoped that the pain would pass when she went to sleep, having been induced by being on her feet all day, much against her family’s best wishes. However, the more painful the pangs became, the more she realized that they might actually be a sign for something else entirely.











