Sometimes they didn’t bother with swimsuits and went skinny-dipping Like the water sprite in old stories who sits naked on a stone playing the violin Anyone who hears him goes a bit crazy and starts danc ing Ella also plays the violin Her mother usually makes her work on her pieces half an hour a day but how could she when Dani was there and they had so many games to play Playing was their most important thing 4
They watched wild animals too like the fox that sat on the cliff sometimes looking out to sea Or they spied on the moose swimming through the water 5
Sometimes eagles circled over the island sea eagles As soon as they got close the other birds started to shriek 6
