I watch from my hiding spot as more and more ships land. Black smoke engulfs the clearing and creatures start to walk out of them. I back up further into the thick grass that I’m kneeling in. The creatures look around and start walking toward all sides of the large clearing. I realize my hiding spot will soon be found, I try thinking of what to do. I gasp as one passes me and grabs a small, young girl by the wrist. She looks terrified, eyes wide with horror.

They throw her in the dirt and use a black shiny thing to shock her. She screams and I flinch. They start to drag her away up into a ship. An older woman jumps out on the other side of the clearing and yells for her. She must have been her mother. I look away as they run toward her. I cover my ears, trying to block out the shrill scream.

I start creeping away, deciding that I would just get shocked as well if I tried saving them. Dashing through the trees and watching as the tall pines and the small 

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oaks whisk past me, I wonder if this is the right thing to do. I hear screaming behind me and run even faster, trying not to think of my family and friends that could possibly be in danger. 

I start to feel guilty and slow down a bit. Behind me, the thick leaves and smoke covered any views back into the clearing. I don’t even know where I’m going. Rethinking things and looking around, going through my options of what to do. The forest always was calming for me, but right now, it just reminded me of my loved ones even more. I look up and see the forest’s canopy, with bits of bright blue where the leaves are thinner. I had grown up seeing it my whole life, but this might be the last time. 

After a large sum of thinking, I dart back to the clearing. I can’t just run away while my kind is being taken away. There has to be something I can do.