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There was no one anymore. The forest used to be filled with my kind but
they are all gone now. I could sense the absence in the air and soon
sadness filled my soul. Sensing my sadness my sister immediately came
and crawled close to me in her embrace. She was all I had right now.

Even though I was only half her size I stood up and tried desperately to
try and match her power but she was always more majestic. We
departed and I galloped around the forest freely with might and halted
to a stop right before the trench. There towering up were some
nettings, crisscrossed all over the ends of the forest. I didn’t know what
it was but every time I came close, my senses would beam myself back
with immense panic and fear. I stared ahead and darkness engulfed me.
My parents were out there once. And they are still yet to come back.
They went in search of food for a family feast one day but they never
came back… It is lonely now. My sister said they were never coming back
but they are. I don’t know how but I just know it. It was just me and my
sister left. My dear friends have somehow vanished and our entire pack
along with my mother just disappeared. But I have faith. They are coming
back.

For days and months, my sister and I would play around the forest and
enjoy ourselves to the fullest. She was always better than me and would
always let me win. My sister was perfect. Everything was perfect. But
the emptiness and fear was still in contact. Every time I look over the
cliff large boulders would appear ahead with large blinking lights which
distorted my vision. The magic was fading. The natural hums of nature
were gradually overwhelmed by loud thuds coming from over the cliff
and large objects hovering over the sky.

Months would pass and the forest below the cliff began to vanish like my
family. My sister tried everything in her power to comfort me but
nothing worked. My ears buzzed all the time and my eyesight blurred up
even more day by day. Our territory still remained undamaged but I had
a sense that sooner or later it won’t be. Each day a creature just my
size would enter the forest territory below us and would use large sticks
to hurt my fellow tree’s. It was painful to watch and made my heart
ache. Their menacing sounds and movements sent chills down my spine
and even made my siter shudder with fear.