For the past four years, Umiko had been at sea swimming. This may seem odd, except that Umiko was in fact, a fish. Her life was peaceful and free of worry. The ocean was a vast place, so she was always able to find food, and always had something to do. Such a life was great- but why did she leave? Her fish instincts told her to follow her nose, and with a bunch of other fish, she swam to her ancestral homeland to lay her eggs and finally rest. Or so she thought.

"So, do you want to fertilize my-", "You know, I'm avail-", "U-um!" Umiko frantically searched around, the other salmon in her school only caring to get inland. Then suddenly, a shadow was cast above- no, several. A terrifying noise could be heard from up above, a terrifying "SCAW!" It was the birds, and it was their feeding time. A yellow beak poked into the water, grabbing a fish before flying off. It happened again, and again, until Umiko was the last one left. "Okay, maybe I can find someone from anothe-" before she could finish her thought, Umiko herself was scooped up, held in the gull's mouth.

"Let me go!" she flailed about desperately trying to relinquish herself from the gull's beaky grasp. "Let me go dammit!" she struggled again, before finally slipping form the bird's mouth and falling straight down onto the ground- several feet down. With a plop accompanied by a splash, Umiko's dead body fell into the river and floated downstream, a man urinating on part of her corpse before the water finally carried her to the side of the river.

"Let me go! Let me go! Let me go!" a ghostly figure shouted, thrashing around like a child throwing a tantrum. She stopped and looked in the water, seeing her reflection before realizing that she had in fact taken the form of a little girl. Her eyes were wide and glazed over. Umiko got down to the floor, went into a fetal position, and began to cry.