Evening walk

The couple from La Fosse were standing outside Spar with Charlie the Scotty dog. Islay went over to greet them enthusiastically. "Did you see the squirrel?" they asked. "It was running up and down Castle Street, and it tried to dive through the glass door of that shop over there. It must have been disorientated."

On the patch of grass beside the library, someone had set a barbeque up, with folding chairs beside the wooden bench. A man and a little girl were clearing up, but it seemed to have been quite a party earlier. Actually, the man was clearing up, and the little girl was waving an incense stick around. "You're too late," the man said to Islay, who had gone to investigate. "All the sausages have gone."