Delma woke up and helped Mrs. Olly with the breakfast.

“Good morning, dear,” said Mrs. Olly kindly. “Here’s your seaweed salad. Eat up before you get late for school.”

“Thank you, Mrs. Olly,” said Delma. “I have a presentation today and I’m very confident as Sir Olly has helped me prepare my speech last night,” Delma said.

“Oh, you know he likes it. He misses school, even though he opted for retirement himself,” Mrs. Olly said. “But now he gets time to work on his books. Nonetheless, I know he relishes getting daily updates from you about the School.”

After breakfast Delma swam towards the Aquatic School. Her day was productive and her presentation in the Science class was appreciated by the teacher.

“Well done,” said Luke the lake trout the Science teacher. “I’m glad to see you’re feeling better.”

Delma smiled politely. Luke had noticed that she had been inattentive in school. Her nightmares had been resulting in sleepless nights and she was not her alert active self. Now that she had moved in with Olly and his wife, it was miraculous that she could sleep better.

“But for how long?” Delma asked herself as she swam languidly towards Olly’s cave -home near the reefs. “I can’t stay with Olly forever.”

That night Delma asked Olly over dinner. “Sir, I was wondering if I could move back to my home…the lake bank?”

Olly glanced up from his meal. “Do you want to move back?”

Delma respected Olly too much to say anything but the truth, “Sir, I don’t want to........

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