Chapter 43
We hadn’t gone all that far out when we started our battle, but I knew I needed to go further out than I had in a long time if I wanted to make this thing work. I swam as fast as I could. The water became colder, and clearer. I waited until I couldn’t hear the noise of the battle, until I couldn’t hear anything, and then I stopped.
I wasn’t sure what I was doing, but I had to try. I stopped, and I listened closely. Still nothing. Was anyone even out there?
I didn’t know what to say, so I just said everything. In my loudest voice, in my best Dolphinese, I screamed out under water, telling it all. Everything that I had been holding back, everything that had happened today and the last few days, and maybe my whole life, I just began to scream out.
“Help!” I yelled in Dolphinese. “My name is Mark Dauphin, and I need your help. I’m in some sort of battle, me and a bunch of sharks. People are dying. I need to save my family, and some man that I think I’m starting to like.”