The waves lap hungrily at the grit filled beach
Children run in and out of the sunset milk ocean,
But what they don't know is that once silence comes with the rising tide,
Animals start to stir.
Tawny owl is the first, she swoons down from her nest,
Her full moon eyes examine the glittering ocean's surface
Cacaw!
She found it, a school of fish.
The fish join the routinely event when the sun sets
To see the beautiful campfires lit, their gone now to the fish's dismay,
They know Tawny is their watching them with her green eyes peeling off their pearl-coloured scales.
Fox trotted down the beach Scavenger his name
He knows what the others call him human buddy.
But he knows that they were jealous of what he had discovered,
The luxury, the dinning, the never-ending feast,
The scraps, the scraps that were always there, the Scraps that he could rely on.
Sausage, his favourite, he dragged a half-full packet back to his alcove.
Scuffling comes from the hedge on the outskirts announcing the arrival of hedgehog and her family
They fumble and tumble down to the drying seaweed... Flies
They snap at their meal and are satisfied at the thousands they find.
The sea turns milky again
Fox scatters,
Hedgehog and her family shuffle single-file back
Tawny cries and climbs,
Fish swim away.
The first dog walkers stroll down,
The local pony club canter down,
Sea swimmers run in.
And the cycle starts again.
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One-Shots because i have better things to do
RandomLittle spin-off stories for when there is writer's block for 'big' books, but I have the urge to do something with a side character... Or Just Random Characters or things.
