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water’s surface and Lucy couldn’t help herself – she screamed. But both Maddy and CJ shouted out ‘Wow!’ and CJ gave Lunar a great big hug, putting his arms as far as he could reach around the neck area of Lunar’s body, and giving her a great big kiss.
    Lunar wasn’t too sure of humans yet and was scared of the scream, which was of such a high pitch that she could hear it, but she felt safe with the boy and filled with joy as he hugged her. She loved being touched and was missing her family badly. It felt quite natural having this little boy hanging on to her. She moved her tail down and her whole body plunged vertically down under the surface, with young CJ attached.
    For the next hour all five of them forgot their worries and just had fun, playing games such as tag and hide and seek, and racing each other – first to a certain point, first to a rock at the bottom and first to the surface. They all laughed a lot and had the best of fun. James was out on the shore, ever-watchful for any type of threat to Lucy. He could not believe what he was witnessing. He had been quite worried at first, but had soon realised that they were safe with the whale and the dolphin.
    On the small beach in the cove they ate some sandwiches that Lucy had got James to bring along. Maddy told them what Indigo had related about the dolphins and the noise in the open sea. They all came to the conclusion that the noise was from the submarines that were patrolling around the seas of Greece, to protect against any terrorist attack while all the most important men and women of the most developed counties were in Greece for the NATO summit. They thought that the dolphins were safe in the Gulf as the sonar didn’t come up the channel; sonar can’t bend round corners, or something like that. But they worried about the dolphins and whales that couldn’t escape it and get into the Gulf; and also, as CJ pointed out, if there were too many dolphins and whales in the Gulf, they may become short of food.
    Maddy agreed. She also pointed out that Lunar was used to diving down very deep for her food, and that since the Gulf was really too shallow for her, she couldn’t catch the type of food she normally would and probably wouldn’t be able to eat well.
    They all saw the problems and had worked out what had caused them, but none of them could work out what they could do to help stop the sonar.

The Castle at Corinth
    They were driving past the ancient city of Corinth – well, the remains of it, and there really wasn’t that much left. ‘A few stones,’ as CJ called it.
    â€˜But old ones,’ was always Maddy’s reply.
    Ishbel was driving them up to the medieval castle at the top of the very high hill. They had spent a lot of great days up there in the past, having picnics and playing hide and seek among what was left of the turrets and rooms. Ishbel would pack up the food, the kids and a book and drive them up there for a day out. She hadn’t been driving very long, only a couple of years. Before that, she had made Jorgos drop them off, then they had to wait for him to remember to collect them. It was much better now she was driving. Of course, Ishbel had had her British driving licence for years, but despite having passed she still couldn’t drive well and had no confidence. Even now, she only ever really drove around Loutraki, never in Athens.
    Lucy was with them; Maddy had asked if she could come along when Ishbel had suggested the night before that they go to the castle. Ishbel said Lucy could come, so Maddy had phoned and asked her. They had decided that James could keep an eye on her from a distance. He was following them on a motorbike at the moment. They were playing at who could catch sight of him the most times. They hadn’t told Ishbel that their new friend was in fact the daughter of the President of America yet. Lucy liked it that way. She was being treated as a