Atlantis Child

The stranger began to speak his garbled message. He spoke nevertheless with a degree of urgency, whereupon he handed her a plastic bag.

When she looked in the plastic bag, she saw it contained egg boxes. Among the egg boxes which later she realised were there to hold “it” together – as if “it” needed some kind of protection, there was a child. –

On recalling the child, she remembered it was blonde with blue eyes that were smiling up at her.

Though she had grasped little of what the stranger had said, three words stuck in her mind.

From those three words she determined that the child, who was from Atlantis, was called Romania… (Craxman remembered the previous evening that he had been looking at an old atlas so this in itself did not seem so absurd). The third word did not make any sense unless, as she had read somewhere, the lost city of irreconcilable legend was supposed to be in South America.