This is a bedtime story for grown ups about a hermit crab who encounters rock playing frogs who create a reality shifting portal. The crab is drawn into that portal, they find themselves the other side of the portal as an eagle. They fly through the seasons as an eagle, starting in spring, seeing the meadows, forest and river in spring, then pass through a portal to summer where they become a mouse watching steampunk Ferrets racing in a boat race, martialed by caterpillars, before getting a lift to a marshmallow castle by a carrier pigeon. In the castle the floor is springy, they touch the petals of a yellow rose which transports them to autumn. In autumn they are back as that eagle, flying over an autumnal forest, seeing someone baking a cosy cake in their cabin in the forest, before passing through another portal and finding themselves on a rug ...