The beach day kicked off with chaos. Royal, sandy chaos.
"Three! Two! ONE!" shouted Callum.
They took off down the shore in a tide pool race, hopping between sparkling pockets of water like leaping frogs in a magical obstacle course.
"First one to the seaweed throne wins!" Jared cried, sprinting past Leo.
"Seaweed what?" Evelisse called.
"No time for questions!"
Snugglewuff joined in, barking joyfully and leaping across puddles like a dolphin on a sugar high. He slipped once, face-first into a jelly-like pool, and emerged with a crab on his head.
Meanwhile, Jared and Felix argued over who reached the 'throne' first—an overturned shell with an impressive amount of algae—and promptly fell into it together. Seaweed flew like confetti.
Evelisse laughed so hard she got the hiccups.
And then…
A glimmer in the sky.
Dozens of *flying fish* soared through the air again, caught in the midmorning shimmer. Their scales glittered like rainbows dipped in stardust.
