Vanished

My concern for Yelsha was bothering me deeply so I decided to follow her as she beckoned me back to the rocky path that led to our den. As I walked closely behind her I started imagining what could be wrong. See the past few days the mighty sun had been shining down on us more than usual. I'm not one to complain about the weather, but it was very hot even for me. Could this be what's wrong? Or maybe it was that loud crunching noise that rattled our den about 2 days ago. It woke up our 2 two cubs, Luta my daughter and my son Luban, and we never figured out what it was. We assumed the humans and one of their monster machines. Scary stuff. There are stories of these machines flattening whole forests in minutes. I pray this is not what's bothering Yelsha. We continue down the rocky path, hopping down rock by rock I try to cheer up my mate by playing a game of tag as we move down. She just shrugs it off and moves faster. Finally we arrive at the den where the children are, but wait somethings different....it's too quiet. As I look in the den to see what the pups are doing I see the problem..... their not there!