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his face as he repeated the process another four times until the bag was empty.
    Meanwhile, Maddy was talking to Indigo. On the news last night they had mentioned that a number of sperm whales had stranded themselves on a beach in the south of Greece, but volunteers had managed to get them all back into the sea at the next high tide. ‘Do you think it was her family?’ asked Maddy. Indigo immediately said that it most probably was, and asked what had happened to the whales once back in the sea. Maddy didn’t know because the news had then moved on to the NATO conference which was about to start in Athens and she had been sent to bed, so she hadn’t had a chance to go on the Internet. They agreed that she would have to do that in order to try to find out what had caused the whales to strand themselves, to see what had happened to them, and to find out if there were any mention of the noise.
    By this time, CJ was further out in the lake, swimming around slowly with Lunar, who was starting to feel a little more like herself. He was swimming under her, around her, and was petting her. They had really hit it off. He was giggling and she even made a bit of a song for him. She loved the interaction and it was doing her good.
    Maddy took off her clothes, revealing her swimsuit, and joined them. CJ shouted over, ‘Isn’t she fantastic? She is huge. Sperm whales are the largest of the toothed whales, and she is only three years old and a female, so just imagine how big the adult males are.’ CJ had always been interested in whales and dolphins. He was always reading up about them and knew all the facts and figures. He knew more about these types of facts than Maddy did.
    Having dried off in the sun, they spotted Jorgos’ jeep, towing the
Barefoot
behind, as it turned into the road by the bottom of the lake. ‘Look, there’s Dad. I had forgotten that he was coming. What do we do?’ asked CJ.
    Maddy said they would have to race over to him and ski with him, or he would know that something was up. They could keep him away from this area of the lake, but Lunar would have to be quite still. They all agreed that the fewer people who knew Lunar was there the better and they wanted her to regain a little more strength before she left the lake. With that, they grabbed their bikes and raced off to go skiing.
    Maddy was driving the boat and CJ was skiing when Jorgos finally noticed the water spout coming from Lunar. Sperm whales’ spouts are easily identifiable as they blow out a little to the left of centre. Luckily Jorgos didn’t know this and Maddy just said that Indigo was over there. Jorgos wondered why Indigo wasn’t coming over to play like he usually did, but then he saw CJ do a jump and he lost his train of thought about the water spout altogether.
    They were all skied out. All three of them had had a great ski and had really enjoyed themselves. They loaded the
Barefoot
up onto the trailer and Jorgos loaded their bikes inside the boat. Maddy turned and gave a wave to Indigo and Lunar before she hopped up into the jeep and they all drove off towards Loutraki with the CD of Robbie Williams turned up high and all three singing along to Jorgos’ favourite song, ‘Me and my Monkey’.
    On getting to the top of the hill outside Loutraki, Jorgos stopped and Maddy and CJ got their bikes to cycle home down the hill. They always did this, leaving Jorgos time to drive to the garage and unload the trailer himself. They waved as he drove off, still singing along to Robbie Williams.
    This was a great hill to cycle down and they always raced each other. Maddy had won every time so far, but CJ was determined to beat her soon. Both went as fast as they dared. It was just as well their mum didn’t know how fast they went.
    They were nearing the bottom. They had just pulled round the last of the hairpin bends and were accelerating fast. CJ was just behind Maddy. The air was flying