Greywolf and Delaware
The SwarmGreywolf and Delaware find intimacy amid the attacks, but their relationship is interrupted by grief and the cost of the Independence mission.
increasing
Bearing strength in each event
decreasing
Delaware Sees the Rescuer

Gratitude and Curiosity
Greywolf appears differently
Delaware thanks Greywolf for saving her and begins to see a person beneath his theatrical activist persona.
Her curiosity opens a path to personal closeness.
Two Outsiders Talk

A Connection Forms
Shared uncertainty
Delaware and Greywolf discuss their lives after his public rescue and her narrow escape.
Their attraction grows from a sense of not quite belonging.
A Relationship Takes Shape

Private Attachment
A new pairing
Delaware tells Anawak that she and Greywolf are seeing each other.
Their relationship changes the group’s familiar rivalries and loyalties.
Together on the Independence

Work and Intimacy
A shared role
Delaware and Greywolf care for the dolphin fleet while helping the team monitor the crisis.
Their partnership gives both a measure of comfort within a militarized environment.
Love Ends in the Well Deck

The Final Separation
A loss neither chose
The Yrr attack and the sinking of the vessel kill Delaware and leave Greywolf to mourn her.
His grief strips away the certainty that defending animals could protect the people he loved.
after the Lady Wexham rescue
April, in Ucluelet
after Anawak returns from Vancouver
August, aboard the ship
during the Independence disaster