Bi Fang, clad in deerskin, waved contentedly on the shoreline, watching the Thesus set sail toward the horizon, while a gray whale surfaced beside him, showing its back and spouting mist.
Before long, the ocean returned to calm, and the whale continued to swim powerfully as if nothing had happened.
Only the whale's call echoed over the empty wilderness, a mournful and somber sound.
Bi Fang had seen the "whale breach" several times before, but he'd never observed it so closely.
Humans always want to "explain" every action of animals, but in the end, they cannot truly understand what whales are trying to express through such behavior.
It might just want to feel the wind on the surface of the sea, or maybe it just felt like leaping up to try something new.
However, the sight before everyone's eyes left them speechless, their hearts filled with something indescribable, as if a new breath, a new train of thought, had spontaneously emerged.
