Electric Sheep > Issue Two > The Jain's Death
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Like an adolescent coming into her adult power, at the age of six months (what, at her speed of cognition, might feel like twenty years to you or me) Anuradha was already taller than Mt. Shaturnjaya had ever been. She had caverns within her, large enough to hold all the temples and palaces of ancient India, many times over. Within those caverns, fruits grew and milk flowed. Below all, she felt a white hot fire of umbilicus-ripping intensity building up inside her, ready to explode.