Freeing Tasi and Inapo, not once but twice, took a strong person. She sat on the ladder and watched Merk end the swim. He gave the dorsal fin sign over his heart with two fingers, and said, “Be as strong as your last breath.”
With that, Tasi and Inapo whistled, swam around Merk one last time, and darted off. They dove under the boat, heading south.
Merk and Jenny climbed on board and watched the dolphins swim away in the high shining summer sun.