She Couldn’t Take Much More of This
As if worrying about one whale wasn’t bad enough, now she had two in her vicinity. And as the male whale kept scraping her with the rough barnacles on his skin, she feared that the other whale would see it as a game and start doing the same to her. Her body was already hurting. She certainly couldn’t keep this up much longer. Then, something in their behavior changed, but it didn’t bring her the relief she was looking for.