About a week ago, Delta, the mother whale and her baby girl, Dawn, were happily traveling with their pod toward Alaska to stay for the summer. A large fishing vessel came tearing out of nowhere and Dawn sent distressing whale sounds to her mother. Delta rushed closer to her daughter and got caught by the rudder of the vessel. It bore a two and a half foot slash right near her top right side. She let out a long distressful cry spooking her child. Almost instantaneously, Dawn got in the way of the small ship’s rudder as well. She let out a low moaning sound alarming and disorientating her mother.
The pod had not heard the commotion and were out of sight when Delta finally got herself back upright. She was bleeding but more importantly, her child was hurt. She immediately soothed Dawn in order to calm her. Both whales could not see well under water because all of the blood. Delta instinctively started swimming faster to clean her wound. Her baby followed suit. Before they knew it, the water around them had changed. there were no more fish. the water tasted different. Delta knew they were lost. she panicked and kept swimming upstream. She ran into fluorescent looking fish that had pretty spots on them. The looked at her oddly and said to one another. “Oh my God! There is a creature among us and it has a little creature with it. what are we going to do?”
All of the salmon stopped jumping and got into a school. :We need to make a plan.” said the leader of the school of salmon. I “I do not have a blackboard but listen and I will tell you how to be safe. Hide under the big rocks in this river. We are going to interrupt our spawning trip to hide. Let’s make it a game so we will not scare the little fish. We will get everyone together and the big fish will tell out children to go and hide under the rocks.”
Many bubbles were blown out of the big fishes’ mouths as they called their children closer. “Go and hide, youngins’, so we can find you later.”
All of the little fish were delight and showed their emotions by swimming in little circles. “Let’s go hide from our mommies and don’t even breathe through your gills.”
In the meantime, Delta sensed that she was out of her element. All she needed was to get out of these unknown waters and return to the sea. Delta kept thinking she had to feed her baby while she was swimming. She sang her nursing song to Dawn to let her know it was time to eat. The water rippled and the little fish who were finding hiding places were shaken by the ripples. They looked at each other and said. “Is it an earthquake?”
“Naw,” said the older fish, “there is something in the water.” All of the fish looked up and saw a shadow go by. It was about forty feet long and a smaller shadow was next to the larger one. The little fish looked at each other quizzically and shrugged.
Delta ignored the little fish while swimming above them. She was wanting some comfort but the pod was gone. Delta shed a couple of tears but knew she could not break down now because her baby needed her.
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