And she took good care of my feet, massaging them and loofahing the calluses away.

Somewhere in the midst of searing, blinding pain a tiny mode of coherence bobbed, buffeted on shrieking data currents. O’Neill felt cosmic fingers trying to rip her self apart, to abolish her mind orders and meld her with the formless hyperplasma of the universe’s beginning.

The main human-induced threat to Hector's and Maui's dolphins is set netting, followed by trawling.

The sheer graphicness of the violence is shocking.