This is wonderfully done Nirlep. The difficulty of moving in the marshy condition ( as perceived by a human mind though ) is well portrayed by keeping the thorns in the foreground. Even the thorny branches have bifurcated in the similar way as that of the trail of the antelope
. The way these antelopes run around in these shallow waters, don't think it's too tough for them
. I really don't know what played in your mind, would love to know if you too felt how a life form gets conditioned to something which is difficult for another life form such as us ??