The whale who sang too loudly
Dolphins and whales · 2-4 years · 2 min read
Written with AI under the direction of Pierre Filstroff, published
Every night, young whale Pearl sings so loudly that the whole ocean wakes up — until she learns to turn her voice into a lullaby instead of a racket.
Pearl was a young blue whale with an enormous voice, so powerful it made the coral reefs tremble for miles around. The trouble was, she loved to sing in the evening, right when the whole ocean was trying to fall asleep.
"Pearl, you're waking up the clownfish!" complained the reef octopus. "And the seahorses can't close their eyes anymore," added the sea turtle, exasperated. Pearl, sorry, didn't know how to sing any other way: her voice only knew one volume.
A wise old moray eel told her to go see the old narwhal of the great cold current, who, it was said, knew how to sing very softly. Pearl swam for three days to find him. The narwhal taught her to close her mouth halfway while singing, the way you whisper a secret instead of shouting it.
Back at the reef, Pearl tried her new voice, all soft, almost a murmur. The clownfish, instead of startling, huddled together to listen. The octopus fell asleep before the first note even ended.
Since that night, Pearl sings her gentle lullaby every evening, and it has become the signal the whole ocean waits for before closing its eyes. Some even say the ships that hear her from afar slow down, without quite knowing why they suddenly feel so calm.
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