[ WP ] There 's something living under the hedge in the garden . A child tries to entice it indoors .

Patricia Mason sits on her sofa with a big mug of herbal tea and watches her Daughter Gloria playing in the garden, running round in circles with her arms outstretched to her sides and making soft aeroplane sounds. Patricia loves watching Gloria play but feels like she can never stop worrying, fearing everything which could possibly happen to the small child who encompasses her entire life. She wants to go and make her and Gloria ’ s lunch but is fearful over her daughter not being safe without her being there to watch and help her if anything happens. She sits there for a while more, assessing the situation, before finally concluding that not much could happen to Gloria while she is simply running around on the grass. 
 
 Gloria notices the moment her mother exits the room behind the glass doors and immediately knows that she is now free to go exploring so begins stomping around in the mud that covers one corner of the small little garden. However, after a while she starts hearing noises coming from the bushes and decides to investigate! She begins crawling through the mud and into the hole which allows her into the gap between the fence and the bushes, which she keeps crawling through until she reaches a thicker bush where she starts having to be careful to avoid the branches but knows she is getting closer to the strange noise. The noise seems to be coming from the dark area just in front of her but is still indistinguishable from anything she has heard before so Gloria tries to be careful as she reaches forward and wraps her hands around something soft and fluffy, pulling it towards her and clutching the creature to her chest, she crawls back out from the bushes. 
 
 It is only now that Gloria can look at the creature; its eyes huge and round, its fur a mixture of white and grey as it makes funny rumbling noises through its big round white teeth. But Gloria has no time to properly examine the creature further as she hears the sounds of doors closing from within the house and knows her mother is coming so places the animal on the ground and dances around with it, pretending like nothing has happened. Patricia enters to the living room and almost drops the plates of sandwiches she carries when she sees Gloria – covered in mud with twigs stuck to her hair and dress, seemingly dancing by herself. 

