The discussion that Gloriana held with Ves stuck in her mind throughout the rest of the excursion.
She remained distracted and in thought even when the submersible approached a pod of whales.
"It's kind of funny how there are whales on every aquatic planet." Ves mirthfully said as he and his daughter eagerly looked and studied the whale-like exobeasts.
While they shared a great resemblance to Old Earth's whales, the biologies of the local species were substantially different. They weren't mammals who had gone back to living underwater so they did not have to swim to the surface in order to breathe in the local air.
However, their large bodies and their graceful lines were highly similar to that of many large aquatic races such as the phase whales.
