I was paddling on a boat. I was so far away from firm soil that I had to stand up to see it, I could not see it while paddling.
I was on my own, the boat was very small. There were people in the sea who wanted me to swim with them. I told them I had to see firm soil. I showed to them, how I had to stand up, I told them where it was and I started to paddle in that direction.
There were dolphins. They were beautiful and I wanted to watch them. But watching them would distract me from the direction I had to paddle. I again stood up, afraid that I had lost sight of land, but there it was. I found that I had to change direction of where I was going in order to make my way there. Then there was just one dolphin and it was communicating with me.
The dolphin offered to take me to the shore on his back. I doubted. If i got off the boat, I’d stop seeing firm land for sure. However it would be so much slower. It would be safer, and I did not run the risks one runs when depending on others, but it lacked the sense of advanture and the speed. After some thought, I decided to trust the dolphin. I got off the boat and enjoyed joining the dolphin in the sea, hugged him, then got on his back. He swam amazingly fast.
I immediately noticed that I would need to consciously manage my breathing. The dolphin first tried to keep me over the water, but soon he started to dive, first for very short periods, then for longer and longer, until we reached land.
Then, some how, without talking (he was a dolphin after all) he warned me, and somehow I knew, that he was going to take me exactly where I needed to be, not just to the beach or some port. To do that he needed to swim under some rocks, leaving the city above us, and appearing in some cave that would lead me to the house I needed to go to.
I arrived and saw the kid I had come to take. He wanted to run away, break free, and he had trusted in me, that I would come to rescue him. But he had expected me to arrive in a boat with paddles, not on the back of a dolphin.
I then told him how wonderful it had been that the dolphin had taken me there, and that he could take us both out now. He too hesitated. It was going to be difficult, with both an adult and a kid on his back. And I warned him about the breathing too.
Finnally he accepted and we got ready to break free, the three of us.