The Deep
The Deep
“She wants us to tuck in behind her flippers for the dive, so that the rush of the water won’t sweep us away from her. She’ll have Faro and Conor on one side of her and me on the other for balance.
“You must lie close to me, little barelegs,” she tells me. Her huge affection laps round me. “Think that you are a part of me.” I remember how we rode with the dolphins. You can’t ride on dolphins as if they were bicycles. You have to let go of being separate and relax against them until it feels as i...f you’re sharing the same skin. Perhaps it’s like that with whales too.
None of us knows how long we’ll need to be in the Deep. None of us knows what we’re going to do when we find the Kraken. It’s like staring over a precipice. It makes you feel sick and dizzy.
But Saldowr’s wise, and he’s the one who is sending us. He wouldn’t throw our lives away for a one-in-a-million chance.
Conor says sperm whales only dive for about an hour.MoreLess
“You must lie close to me, little barelegs,” she tells me. Her huge affection laps round me. “Think that you are a part of me.” I remember how we rode with the dolphins. You can’t ride on dolphins as if they were bicycles. You have to let go of being separate and relax against them until it feels as i...f you’re sharing the same skin. Perhaps it’s like that with whales too.
None of us knows how long we’ll need to be in the Deep. None of us knows what we’re going to do when we find the Kraken. It’s like staring over a precipice. It makes you feel sick and dizzy.
But Saldowr’s wise, and he’s the one who is sending us. He wouldn’t throw our lives away for a one-in-a-million chance.
Conor says sperm whales only dive for about an hour.MoreLess
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