Tula's Tiny Seeds

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Tula stretched his neck toward the morning sun, but something felt wrong. The lily pads in his pond drooped like tired umbrellas, their edges brown and crispy. The water, usually crystal clear, looked cloudy and strange. "Why is our pond changing?" he wondered aloud, touching a wilted leaf with his small foot. The other turtles sunbathed on their logs, unconcerned. But Tula couldn't shake the feeling that something important was happening to their home.

"Have you noticed the water tastes different?" Tula asked his friend Coral, who was busy arranging pebbles on her basking rock. She barely glanced up. "Water is water, Tula. You worry too much about things that don't matter." But it did matter. The fish swam deeper than usual, and the dragonflies had stopped visiting altogether. Tula decided to investigate on his own. If no one else wondered about their changing pond, he would find the answers himself.