When a colony of sea turtles returns to a familiar shore and finds the beach missing, the oldest among them insists they have come too far west. Then banyans begin appearing where they should not, warm currents lead bodies toward easier water, and a wounded turtle returns carrying a delay no injury can explain. Following them are two monk seals, a Wise One whose terrible directions are sometimes right, and the shadow of Bindi - a woman, a force, perhaps something older than either - who never stays. As beaches move and old routes fail, every body must learn a new way of surviving. What disappears leaves a shape. What returns comes altered. And somewhere beneath the moving coast, a fang keeps almost closing. THE ELUSIVE FANG is a lyrical, darkly playful myth of migration, appetite, memory, and the dangerous grace of remaining unfinished.