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Indigo could hardly hear the pathetic call she made every couple of minutes. It was only then that Indigo moved out of her vision and took the opportunity to swim around her slowly, looking for injuries.
    Looking at her size, Indigo worked out that Lunar could only be about three years old. She should have been in a nursery school, with her mother, aunts and the calves and adolescent whales. She should never have been on her own. From the external examination, she appeared quite thin, with a few rake marks to her sides from the rocks, but apart from that she appeared fine.
    About an hour after first meeting her, Lunar stopped calling her name. At that point Indigo asked what had happened. It took a while, but he finally found out that Lunar had been with her group when she had gone down for a long dive. She had just caught a good-size squid when she heard a sound so terrible that she became totally blind. At the depth she was, there was no light, but whales use their inbuilt sonar to ‘see’, and they can see as well as they do in daylight, even better, with their sonar.
    The noise was too loud, and at such a frequency that she could not hear her own sonar, so she was in total blackness and the noise hurt her. She thought that she had lost consciousness. Well, she couldn’t remember getting to the surface. On surfacing, though, her family was nowhere to be seen. She felt sick and very disoriented. Lunar didn’t have a clue as to how long ago this had happened. The noise had finally stopped, but she couldn’t get her sonar working properly yet and still felt awful.
    Indigo thought about what the Keeper had said, that other dolphins and whales had come across this noise before and not all had survived. Lunar had been lucky not to have stranded herself on a beach. He knew Lunar was worried about her family, so he didn’t mention it to her.
    â€˜You will be safe here for a while. We need to get you some food first and then you need rest. He explained that she was in a saltwater lake in the Gulf of Corinth.
    â€˜Are you the Chosen One who lives there?’ she asked in awe.
    â€˜Yes I am; I am working with my friend, a human child, to make the seas safer, but it is hard work and we don’t seem to be getting anywhere at the moment.’
    Indigo spent the rest of the night fishing for Lunar, who ate and rested fitfully. Indigo had then raced off in the morning to call for Maddy to join them and returned immediately to Lunar’s side to await their arrival. He was happy to hear Maddy and CJ calling to him as they walked to the edge of the water.

The President’s Daughter
    â€˜Wow, you’re a sperm whale! What are you doing here? Indigo, what’s he doing here?’ cried out CJ as he slowed down at the lake’s edge and stood still, looking at Lunar in wide-eyed amazement. Maddy looked on in awe too, but she couldn’t speak; she was too surprised at what she saw.
    Indigo quickly explained to Maddy what had happened and Maddy told CJ. CJ asked if Lunar would mind if he approached. He had a couple of fish that he had bought before leaving Loutraki. On being given the go-ahead, he slowly walked forward into the lake, approaching Lunar from where she could keep a wary eye on him. She had never been this close to a human before. Although she felt no threat from this girl or boy, she had heard some terrifying stories of what humans were capable of.
    CJ unwrapped the fish. He was now standing in the lake in a depth up to his chest. In his haste to approach the whale, he had not taken off his clothes. But it was a hot day and they would soon dry. He placed a fish in front of Lunar, who slowly opened her mouth and tilted her head slightly. CJ placed the fish head first into her mouth. His aunt had told him that this was the way to feed dolphins so that the fins don’t stick and get lodged in the throat. Lunar gulped and the fish disappeared down her throat. CJ had a huge grin on