Several of keena's friends to the beach

have gone to the beach

Explanation:

But when??? If we had an specified time when they went to the beach (yesterday) we should use Simple Past Tense

The time was not specified so, better to used Present Perfect Tense

Several Keena´s friends have gone to the beach

- "is not only a luminous passive watcher in the night sky, but it is a powerful force.

it does symbolizes love,   lust   and dreaming and is seen as a power symbolic force that determines and affects human behaviors and reactions.

in the context of the question it does remain you that he events are only taking place at night and the reader of the passage of time."