Their eyes Watching God
I disclaim all of these characters.
1. All These Small things
"This is stupid." Said a seven year old boy as he followed the trail of small foot prints on the wet sand.
"Shh." Hushed the little girl with pigtails, hunching over three steps to pick up a dainty shell. "You'll scare the babies away."
"What babies? I don't see any babies." Kouga snorted and blinked while the petite girl randomly ran off in a different direction. He followed. "Ayame why are you doing now?" He leered over her shoulder.
"Shh. You'll scare them away." She hushed abit harsher than the first time and lifted the small boulder off to reveal a mass of small pearls.
"What is that?" he asked, raising a brow.
"These are turtle babies. Shelly came two days ago. I saw her. I followed and she left me in charge of these babies." She said.
"Who's Shelly?" he asked again.
"Their mommy." She said, tucking a red curl behind her ear. "But I have to keep them safe from those mean birdies."
"Ayame it's called survival of the fittest. Some have to die to make it in life." He told her.
"Nuh uh." She said as she scuffled a few in her shoebox. "Help me Kouga. They have to live, I can't let them die." He sighed and helped picked the pearl eggs up, into her shoebox, then got up to run to the shore. She sat down and watched the eggs begin to move.
"Look! They're moving!" she squealed as the shells cracked and soon became a swarm of wobbly turtles.
"Eww." He stuck his tongue out and she gently dumped them in the ocean and watched them contently waddle away.
"Shh, you'll scare them away and they'll never come back." She said before going back to collecting iridescent seashells with Kouga, following right beside her.