[just curious, but what time of day is it?]
Melody turned back to her cubs. She froze when she saw they were.
"Sariah, Meena! Where are you?" she called out, panicking. She looked around frantically, not spotting her cubs.
"Yeah, Ma?" Sariah asked, the two cubs popping up from behind a pile of rocks.
"You worried me! Don't go off without telling me!" Melody growled, running over to her kits and roughly pushing them back towards their small clearing surrounded by rocks. "Something might eat you!"
"We're sorry, Ma," Meena said. As usual, Sariah looked away and grunted, a sour look on her face. She could see Meena was trembling. She swept the two kits closer to her with tail until she had them protectively between her front paws.
"It's ok, Meena, you two just scared me, that's all. I don't know what I'd do if I lost you two," Melody said very gently, and felt the small cub start to calm down.




























