Carried away by a moon shadow

Oracle liked asking questions sometimes they led to stories and she loved stories. The moon glinted of something further down the beach and she paused glancing around ma at it, her question forgotten. It seemed as if the sand was boiling, curiosity drew her nearer and slowly she left her mothers side. Tiny creatures where poring out of the sand they where larger then the other crabs on the beach and strange shaped with rounded shells o their backs and four tiny little flippers they where black with white tummies they didn't have the dangerous looking forepaws of the crabs but what else could they be. Silence reigned as she considered her new find then carefully she poked one with her paw it tumbled sliding down the sand bank from which it had just emerged flippers flailing wildly as it fought to maintain stability.

Dozens of others continued to struggle free as she watched enraptured. For a few moments she just stood watching as they streamed towards the ocean before carefully picking one up in her jaws. Its tiny flippers hit against her nose and she dropped it in surprise before stooping and gently lifting it again she carried it over to mother. Dropping it at the dames feet she explained ?ma look what I found, its a weird crab,? excitement pounded in her heart as she looked to her mother for praise and explanation, and the little creature she had brought fought desperately for escape tiny flippers dragging it across the sand away from the hulking beasts.