a plea for help

[Nadyah]

I awake in our den. Tears create a battle on the rim of my eyes, I look for Mother. She's gone. I thought, letting a few tears go. My soul tugged to leave, but my heart said stay. I looked in the den. She wasn't here. She wouldn't just leave me, right? Its been a week, and no sign of her. She said shed be back. I decide that if she does come back, I would leave her. So I left. Wandering out into the vast fields. All my tears poured forth, like a water fall from a crack in the ice.