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The first chapter

**In the press: **

The first two chapters

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At Port Miou's hole

Abundantly illustrated. At dusk, a large tiger shark attacks and capsizes a fishing boat. A young child falls into the water, which his parents are unable to recover and which they believe to be dead. He clings to the dorsal fin of a dolphin that passes by, which belongs to an unusual clan, which has established its refuge in the mouth of an underground river (identical, whose entrance is located in the calanque of the same name, between Marseille and Cassis, which I explored at the end of the 1950s, and which I know like the back of my hand).

The child, Pichoun Peï (in Provençal "little fish"), is taken in by a pair of dolphins, "Father and Mother Dolphin," and lives with them in a cave's diverticulum, which has a part above water, an air pocket (as is the case at Port-Miou). The tiger, accompanied by his servant, a remora, comes to claim his prey, in vain. The next day, the boy's reception within the clan is discussed. He takes his place on the council rock, illuminated by the light that falls from the cave's entrance. An orca and an old walrus missing one tusk vouch for him. This little human will be ransomed for a moonfish.

They show him all the secrets of the sea. The walrus teaches him the language of all the inhabitants of the underwater jungle, from the trunkfish to the great blue whales that cross the open sea.

But the child succumbs to the flattery of the lawless people, the octopuses, who one day decide to kidnap him and take him to the "iron caves," the remains of a shipwrecked cargo on a reef. He is locked in the bow, which is above water. What the octopuses want: that he shows them how to get the ship back in motion, so that they can set out to conquer the world and become the most important people in the jungle.

Warned by a seagull friend, the orca and the walrus set out to rescue their protégé. But the octopuses are numerous and the ship's deck presents itself as a problematic battlefield. They then ask for help from Kraken, the giant squid, who only comes up from the depths at night. After a terrible battle, the little prisoner is freed, while Kraken performs a dance that paralyzes the octopuses before he devours them.

The years pass. The child grows up. Meanwhile, the tiger shark has formed a court among the young dolphins, who no longer listen to the walrus's teachings. The clan leader is aging. One day, he misses his prey and can no longer, therefore, continue to lead the clan. The tiger positions himself as a claimant.

The orca and the walrus tell Pitchoun Peï: "We, we can only fight. You, you can do something. Go to the village and bring back the long tooth. It's the only thing that the great tiger fears."

Pitchoun Peï goes down to the fishing village, not far away, and steals one of these long spears, that is, a harpoon with a sharpened stone tip. When the Tiger appears at the Council, he places the tip in his gills and disgraces him before the clan, saying "move, even a fin, and I'll bleed you right here."

The fact that a large part of the young dolphins have followed the Tiger plunges the entire clan into despair. They all scatter. Each goes their own way. Pitchoun Peï decides to go to his kind. There, a woman claims to recognize her lost son. Pitchoun Peï, now an adolescent, is accepted by the village council and is useful by pointing out where the fish banks are or by retrieving lost stone anchors.

He listens, amused, to the fantastic stories of Gideo, the oldest fisherman in the village, who describes in great detail the underwater depths he claims to know.

One day his dolphin brothers warn him. The tiger shark is back. He has returned with the intention of killing him. But Pitchoun Peï will set a trap for him, and it is he who will overcome his dreaded enemy.

Gideo arrives at this point, and claims that the shark's body belongs to him, and that this capture by Pitchoun Peï is only an accident. Pitchoun Peï receives the help of his dolphin brothers to bring Gideo to his senses. Terrified, Gideo thinks that Pitchoun Peï is a sorcerer and threatens to denounce him to the village. Pitchoun Peï understands the danger. He makes the following offer to the old fisherman: he will keep the fins, which he can sell for a good price, and in addition, can claim that he killed the giant shark. Pitchoun Peï will keep only the jaw, which he had vowed one day to place on the council rock.

You will discover the rest of the story. I leave the surprise to you. It's a beautiful story, which I enjoyed writing. Every day, I wrote a new chapter that I read to Jie before she fell asleep. I think it could make a great animated film.