After their long swim in the lake, the tiny cygnets clambered up onto their mothers back, and rested while she paddled them hastily back to their island in the middle of the lake. Once they got back to the small island, each of the cygnets sprung off, and went to lay down. Once each and every one of the cygnets had gone to sleep, the mother went off to go get food, on the threatening streets of Chicago. At one point on her expedition for food, the mother came close, oh so close, to a car that was zooming past at high speeds. After that near fatal collision, the mother swan was very suspicious of everything, every little thing, that she saw. For the next hour, she looked for food, and when she found it, she decided to go back to her little baby cygnets. On her way back, she had another startling miss with a train. This time though, she wasn't quite as lucky, and a couple of feathers were plucked off, and drifted away after the train. When she got back to her babies, she decided to never go back to that terrible area in the city.