Summary

Piya arrives at the hospital in time to administer the antivenin to Tipu before it is too late. As his condition stabilizes, Deen and Piya settle into the trust’s guest house for the night. It is there that Piya tells Deen about Rani.

Rani is a river dolphin of the Orcaella Brevirostris species, which Piya has been studying for most of her professional life. Rani is a member of a pod that has been pivotal to her research, and Tipu had been with Piya when she discovered her.

Because of changes in the composition of the waters of the Sundarbans, the pod’s patterns of movement have been shifting. This has caused Piya to place a GPS tracking device on Rani. The alert that Piya had received at the conference was the tracking device telling her that Rani was no longer in...