Wake a ripple

A pair of small children ran giggling towards the water, a third nervously trailing behind. Each was carrying a bag of toys towards one of the many tide pools scattered across the area. 

“Come on, Nyshr! it'll me sundown before you even reach the water at this rate!” The first child named Link called, waving to their straggling first. 

Nyshr, the sheepish girl dragging her feet at the back of the pack, frowned a little. Scuttling to catch up to the siblings in front of her. “I'm not sure what I'm supposed to be doing?”

Tink, the only male and tallest of the bunch jumped into the tide pool, suddenly! Dumping out his back of toys that floated delightfully upon the water. “I'll just show you. Look, all you have to do is make waves.” 

He ducked down to rest on his knees in the tide pool, sloshing the water with his arms and sending the toys scattering. The small rippling effect pushing them with gentle momentum. “You're not allowed to use magic or touch your toys, that's cheating. But you have to get all of your toys to float to the other side of the pool first, then you win.” The young boy grinned as he stood back up to go gather his toys back up into a small cluster and held them together on the surface of the water. 

Link jumped in next, dumping out her bag of toys and pushing them around until she could collect them in a small cluster. “You have to stay on this side of the pool, no moving from the edge. Pretend there's a straight line right in front of us that we can't pass!”

Tink grinned, nodding with an abundance of enthusiasm as he chuckled. 

Nyshr frowned, looking between the siblings. Gently stepping into the water beside Link, and carefully taking each of her toys out of the bag. “Won't the waves I make move your toys around, too!”

“That's part of the fun!” Tink blurted out before he laughed. 

“You can try to sabotage me and Tink by making our toys go wonky ways!” she demonstrated by taking one of her toys to splash out of the pool. “Then you have to get out, go get your toy, and come back to this side of the pool. You can splash us, too!” 

Nyshr smiled slightly, nodding as Link crawled out of the pool to collect her toy as quickly as she possibly could. Running back to jump between her brother and her best friend. “Now cluster all of your toys together and we'll start on three!”