Jupiter was just ending a training session,
finishing up for the night.
As the people in wetsuits left for the night,
he pretended to be interested in where they were going,
following them at the perimeter of his tank.
They cooed at him and left him alone.
He was going to jump the barrier.
The ocean was just outside his
pool.
He knew the screen was easy to break because of an incident that happened during one of the shows.
His flopped dorsal fin swayed up as he rapidly turned,
getting a better distance from the screen as he was going to jump out and break the screen,
to get into the ocean to his family.
He swam increasingly fast
towards the wall jumping just before he hit the wall,
landing on the slick concrete sliding towards the screen.
He whistles to the other orcas his last goodbye.
They all respond with a whistle of 'see the ocean for us, please'.
He nodded his head,
then knocked the screen down along with himself into the water...
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Unfettered
Short StoryAnother step into trying to spread awareness about captive marine mammals. I do want to put a Trigger warning as there is slight animal abuse, self harm, death, refrenced bullying, severe health conditions, mentions of injuries and implied saddening...
