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EXTRACT: Flipping wings! Covered in oil. Disaster. Can't move. Bad. Very bad. How? I'm flying along, head in the clouds, ruminating. Below me the mother of all bream. Almost taste it. Glassy sea, gentle breeze, glistening sun, perfection! Should have been wary. Fly blind. Choose moment. Dive, snap up prize, prepare to ascend. Preoccupied. Don't notice conditions altered. Break through water, flap wings. Pain. Wings leaden. No headway. Barely surface. Dripping oil. Fear. White fear. Sea covered with blanket of black muck. Suffocating. Bream's thrashing about. Exhausting. Not gaining altitude, tiring badly. Have to release fish. Into what? Oil. Fish drops...