Flippy’s tears dissolved into the ocean. That lifelong, never-dormant fear had finally materialized.
Even though she couldn't understand hydrodynamics, she had no doubt that her unique condition—her inability to race through the waters—was the reason she couldn't stay among the pod.
She gave her mother one last look, turned around, and swam away.
That's how the first and only furry dolphin began the rest of her life in exile.
— Bastian Espada