Dusk

They came out at dusk, hunting for the nourishment to sustain them.  They slipped through the growing darkness without a sound.  Here and there they searched, filling their bellies on the lives swirling around them.

Another world came alive with the setting of the sun, a world filled with creatures ready to pounce on the unsuspecting.

“There did you see it?”  He asked his young daughter pointing into the dark.

The girl nodded her head as she watched in wonder at the swooping, diving acrobats of the bats as they hunted in the growing shadows catching their fill of mosquitoes.