00:00An aquarium for sick children had contacted me with a specific request: a seahorse, just one for the
00:05a girl in a sterile room who hadn't been able to leave for three months and who dreamed about it every night.
00:10I detect it almost immediately, suspended in the water next to a blue starfish, and my heart...
00:15It excites me because I know exactly what that means to her.
00:18It descends slowly, lands vertically on the sand, and I extend my index finger, holding my breath, terrified that a
00:25Just a sudden movement will scare him away forever.
00:27It remains motionless under my finger, perfectly calm, as if it understood the importance of that exact moment.
00:32Tell me the truth, would you have had the patience to stay so still as not to scare a single small creature?
00:38I'm still looking around, not for him, but to complete the aquarium order.
00:42A blue-clawed crab pulled from the sand.
00:44An embarrassing crab unearthed from a cloud of sediment.
00:48Under a rock, a moray eel pokes its head out; I offer it a fish, it hesitates.
00:52Look, it refuses to come out completely despite my repeated attempts.
00:55A tiger shrimp along the rocks.
00:57I carefully lift a sea cucumber and constantly keep an eye on the seahorse, refusing to lose sight of it.
01:03I didn't see it for a second until the end of my dive.
01:06When I got upstairs safe and sound, I thought about that little girl who was finally going to see through
01:09an aquarium glass, exactly what I had been dreaming about for three months.
