Tide children (#1). Murray S.

For residents of the city, it is a common thing to find fish and crabs on the streets, because the sea gradually devours the city, rising higher and higher with each tide. But that gray in the morning, when the tide retreated, a whale was discovered on the roof of the chapel. The townspeople were alarmed. How did he swam there? How will they shoot it? Is this a bad omen?

Ellie, an orphan and inventor, the only one dared to approach a dead giant. And found... a boy inside him. Living, with the appearance of a completely ordinary boy, who, however, behaved strangely - did not know that the city was only one and repeated about its brothers and sisters... The city authorities decided that this was certainly a bad omen and sentenced the uninvited guest to death. After all, nothing good can appear like this, which means that people are threatened with misfortunes.

But Ellie, the only one of the whole city, against. She is ready to attach all her ingenuity and even risk her own life in order to save a stranger.

Why is she doing this?