As Ulysses winds up to attempt another leap, he pauses briefly. Moaning from the air above alerts him, giving him enough time to crouch down flat to the rock and watch an entire whale fly over him. Another chance to remain alive. He grabs the rope coming his way, leaping then pulling himself forward through the waters, hand over hand, toward the shore.

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Ulysses jumps, then dashes while holding onto the braced rope, which should carry him just short of the shoreline