Title: Whispered Songs
Fandom: Ecco the Dolphin
Rating: G
Summary: A meditation on the ocean's silence.
The word is whispered.
The sea held many secrets.
Ecco had never been so far from the bay he was born to, and the wide open greeted him with the silence of eons. He had been told to seek out an old secret, in a place that no dolphin would rightfully go. He feared, but also feared what life would hold for him if he couldn’t find it.
He rested a while. In half-dreamed wonder, he thought of the many things. Old things that few ever thought of in waking flittered across his mind. He felt at peace, and wondered if this was a secret of the sea. He wondered how to find them.
There was a legend that the observant could hear whispered songs in the ocean, that it had its own voice that lured the whales and the dolphins and seals from the dryside long ago. Ecco listened now. He heard the soft chaos of the ocean, but nothing resembling song.