... In one place, the darkness surrounding him suddenly began to bend inward. Bending more and more, she painfully pricked the baby and suddenly turned into something delightful, blinding him and calling out, away from this shell, which now seemed to him so cramped and uncomfortable. Straining with all his paws, the little lizard got out into the dazzling, boundless, so frightening and, at the same time, alluring, surrounding world...