He stood in a pool of shadow by a bookcase, plump, pale-faced, round-shouldered, clutching a crossbow in soft powdered hands. Silk slippers swaddled his feet.
Neuroscientists face a challenge: shielded by our thick skulls and swaddled in layers of protective tissue, the human brain is extremely difficult to observe in action.
Nine out of 10 infants in North America are swaddled in the first six months of life, and the demand for swaddling clothes soared by 61 percent in the U.K. between 2010 and 2011.
" Aegon" ? For a moment he did not understand. Then he remembered. A babe swaddled in a crimson cloak, the cloth stained with his blood and brains. " Dead. He's dead" .