the child was irradiated, dumped off the coast of Venezuela.
after four months he washed up on an Icelandic beach, screaming, wailing as the last of his skin sloughed off.
he tried to run, but he had forgotten how, so instead he crawled as far as he could, approximately three and a half metres from the shoreline, where he collapsed and was overtaken by the tide four hours later, drifting back out to sea, silently, eyes fixed upon some jagged mountaintop that he would never know again.