Wheeling Gull Isle he can hold you, and shake you child.

Time passes by as Ava went back and forth, seeking more flowers and anything else of bright interest that she could rip from the earth and give to the large, lumbering beast to eat. 

Malakai watched her and after a time, laid his head down on his forelegs. Now, he could just see pieces and flashes of her crude coloring beyond the long grass. Eventually, with Ava's quiet rummaging and the sound of the waves washing over the beach, the boy fell to sleep.