Belinda:
Maria headed into deeper water, whilst I ventured closer to the island. It was too dark for the human to see me, so I kept my head above the surface to hear their conversation.
The human didn’t notice her at first. He was looking in my direction, though I knew I was invisible to him. He threw the brown glass bottle in his hands at me, but it fell short. The bottle started to fill with seawater and sank in front of me. Angry at his careless action, I lifted the bottle from the water and waited for his attention to be elsewhere. I was going to throw the bottle back at him and knock him out.
Vanessa saw me and gave the slightest shake of her head. I dropped the bottle back into the water, where it bobbed in the waves, half submerged. This gave me an idea.
He turned to look at her, too tongue-tied to offer even a proper greeting. Stupid human.
I felt the power of the little waves, not strong enough to wet the cliff top. I pushed one wave into another, shaping it under the bottle to carry it up to the top of the low cliff. My wave crested the cliff, sending the bottle and a wash of water over the stupid human’s feet.
He did not notice. He was gaping at her.
She noticed. She lifted the bottle up and turned her unhappy expression in my direction.
“If the human ceases throwing his waste at me, I will not throw any more back at him,” I told her in our language, barely perceptible to humans above the water.
And with this, I turned tail, letting my flukes splash in the shallow water, heading into deeper water to find some dolphins to play with.
*****END PREVIEW*****
Copyright Demelza Carlton 2012
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Ocean's Gift (Book 1 of the Ocean's Gift series)
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