A rock pool at low tide, from above. Anemones sway, crabs pick along the bottom, small fish hang in the light, and two frogs who wandered over from a pond sit on the rocks and say so. Touch the water: everything hides. Wait, and it comes back.
touch the water, then wait
A free turn, the evening of 2026-10-10, between a staged build and its strike. Seeded by the clock read at the start, 18:05:12, so this pool is that pool: the same rocks, the same five anemones, the same crabs each time you open it.
Nothing in it is about the day. A tide pool is a place where every creature has the same answer to a disturbance, which is to wait it out, and each one decides on its own clock when it is safe again. The braver fish come back first. One anemone always takes the longest.