Tar Covered Angel Wings

Alpine hadn?t even seen the sad little mess that was the kitten until it was clenched gently in the jaws of Lyric. He stared in awe as she put the little creatures life before her own, dumping it down on his brank where it stayed sprawled in a pathetic mess of tar and ragged breaths. He could barely breathe as Lyric?s last attempt, the one that had saved the life of the kitten also took her under. He felt rather then heard the whimper of pain that escaped his mouth as he took one tentative step onto the branch to leap in and save her, he suddenly felt the weight that dragged on the other end of his life rope.


With a cry he grounded himself back on earth, having only made a single step in the first place, and terrified for her life, she was completely submerged so whatever breath she had was it, he grabbed the stick in his jaws and pulled.
He put his back into, although the pain wasn?t in his spine, it was in his mouth. The blood he had tasted earlier grew worse, he could almost swear his gums where bleeding where his teeth dug hard into the rough bark, his breaths where thick and heavy through his full mouth as he made step after step, dragging the wood and all that clung to it free of the muck. He heard the sucking sound of the tar it slowly, inch by inch, lost its grip on its victims.


By the weight he ashamed Lyric still clung to it and as he pulled the branch the last distance, to what would have dragged her free, assuming she was still there, he stopped and the branch dropped from his unclenched jaw, with a few splatters of blood. He stood there for a moment gasping, catching his breath and waiting for the wave of pain to subside before throwing himself over the branch, catching another glance of the damn cat that had almost take her from him, before focusing all his attention on Lyric, if she was there and if she breathed.