Attunga (Tales of the Terran Diaspora Book 1) by Peter Wood

Author:Peter Wood [Wood, Peter]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Diaspora Press
Published: 2017-03-14T00:00:00+00:00

Chapter 21

‘Dingoes! I must be hearing things! Hey, Wirrin, Calen reckons he was too excited to sleep. Perhaps you should go back to bed?’

‘As if that’d make any difference, and Sonic’s arriving in a few minutes so I can’t.’

‘Why is this more exciting than the Monkey Mia attack? You slept through that,’ said Wirrin.

‘Did not!’

Wirrin had to laugh. ‘Only because Thom nearly broke your ribs waking you up.’

‘This is different. The dolphins are moving to their permanent homes. Every single pod has been mobbing us for the last few days asking questions and telling Sonic to hurry things up and their excitement is catching. I can’t help it.’

Everyone was excited; there was no doubt about that. All the dolphin companions and rangers had been gearing up for the big move for the last few days and last night Sonic had been so exuberant they’d spent most of his visit laughing at his antics. Wirrin and Thom were almost as excited as Calen.

‘Calen, what exactly are we doing? We can’t go to all the reaches. There wouldn’t be enough time.’

‘You remember Martin? We’re going with him and his pod. They’re part of the largest group and Sonic is leading them through the interconnects.’

There was a flurry of movement at the access way as Sonic, Puck and Flute darted into the pool.

Calen dived straight in.

***

‘Hurry, Thom. You must fly the Comet like a lightning bolt for us.’

The expedition was underway after a skimmer trip with three excited dolphins leaping and porpoising all the way to the dolphinarium where the transport modules were waiting to take them to the Comet. The trip to Warrakan might seem long, but Thom explained that because of K74 surveillance drones he had a 4G limit, which meant he couldn’t go as fast as lightning. Besides, they still faced another trip in the transporters and then a short trip accompanied by skimmers to the rendezvous point.

The reach was alive with activity, skimmers darting everywhere and dolphins sounding in all directions. People were waving as they passed. Sonic leapt from the water with a call of greeting then powered towards a whole convoy of skimmers and a great crowd of dolphins. Twenty pods in this group were travelling together to their new reaches, all with their associated humans and various other dolphinarium people.

Akama raised an arm in greeting, his shock of white hair unmistakable. Sonic erupted into the air in front of him then darted off amongst the surrounding dolphin pods.

‘What’s he doing?’

‘He’s called the pod leaders together to meet Akama.’

Twenty dolphins, following Sonic, approached Akama and ranged in front of him for a moment while the air filled with the chittering clicks and whistles of their greetings.

Akama made the special wave back then, pointing, set his skimmer in motion. Dolphins and humans followed, twenty-six skimmers and just over four hundred dolphins starting on their journey, some of them travelling up to 10 kilometres, crossing three reaches and then traversing the interconnects between them and some of them finishing their journey when they reached the second and third reach.

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