Dolphin Child by James Carmody

Author:James Carmody
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: adventure, cornwall, childrens book, dolphin, the girl who, dolphin adventure, dolphin child, the girl who dreamt of dolphins, dolphin story, james carmody

Spirit and Dancer decided to head off towards the coast straight away. The other dolphins in the pod were still dozing lethargically after feeding on the squid and there was plenty of the day left. There was no reason why they should not leave now and still get back to the others before sundown. ‘I don’t know how those young dolphins find the energy’ muttered Moonlight to Chaser as they watched the tails of Spirit and Dancer swim off into the blue.

Spirit was glad that Dancer suggested going to see the place where Star-Gazer had disappeared. At least by doing something he felt that worrying knot of anxiety inside him lessen a little. He had no idea what they could do or find now after all this time. After all, it was at least twelve moons since Star-Gazer had disappeared and even if there might have been something to find at the time, there was unlikely to be anything now.

As they approached, Dancer looked up at the rock which Summer had described as looking like a dolphin leaping.

‘Doesn’t look much like a dolphin leaping to me’ she grumbled. Spirit gave her a playful nudge.

‘You’ve got to look at it from the right angle’ he said.

‘Which angle is that?’

‘With your eyes open!’ joked Spirit.

The rock loomed up above them as they swam past and when they went into its shadow, Spirit felt his mood darken. This was the stretch of coast which Star-Gazer had disappeared from. The shore formed a gentle curve, as though it were a very wide bay for about three miles before coming to another rocky outcrop in the distance. Beyond that was the mouth of a narrow estuary where a river fed into the sea. The shoreline itself was a mixture of pebble beach and low cliff. Out there somewhere, the ship had passed and during that stormy squall, while the noise from the ship had disorientated all three dolphins, something had happened.

‘Come on, lets start looking’ said Spirit.

‘But what for?’ replied Dancer.

‘I don’t know. Let’s just look.’ That was the problem. Spirit didn’t know what to look for. This stretch of coast was long and even if there was some evidence of Star-Gazer’s disappearance, the chance of him and Dancer stumbling upon it was remote.

They swam along, scanning the seabed as they went. The rock didn’t drop away sharply here as it did along some parts of the coast, but formed a gentle incline. They searched for evidence of humans having been there. They would frequently see small see-through containers on the seabed that Lucy called bottles, or metal ones that were discoloured or crumpled. They seemed to be everywhere. Occasionally they would see a larger black round thing with a hole in the middle. Spirit could not imagine what they were for. Chaser said he’d bitten one once to see what it tasted like. He said it was tough and chewy, like old squid, but that the taste had been acrid and bitter in his mouth.

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