God's Furry Angels by Kirby Lee Davis

Author:Kirby Lee Davis [Davis, Kirby Lee]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: BookBaby
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Thirteen

The old deadwood groaned once, twice. Bridget turned an ear, recognizing the sound, even though she’d never heard such impact stresses happen so quickly together. Then came an awkward, flopping plop on the grassy earth.

“Bridget!” came John’s bellow. “Stay!”

Even if she’d known what that meant, Bridget wouldn’t have listened. Fearing John intended to punish her, which was probably a good bet, Bridget threw herself into the darkness beyond the elm – a place she’d never seen even from the windowsill. She ran into thick, damp air and tall grass, seeing little around her and recognizing even less. John’s footfalls pounded in her wake.

“Bridget!” he shouted. Curious… she heard desperation in his words, even fear. “Bridget, don’t go! Please, Bridget. BRIDGET!”

She continued on, losing all sense of him in the thicket. Her long, graceful bounds carried her high over a shallow stone ramp into a barren flatland. The dry earth scraped against her pads. She stopped to lick them, hating the ashen taste, only to forget all about that in a fearful gaze at the dead zone surrounding her. Straight and true it flowed, this somewhat soft, black rock that she sat on, and yet it glowed in the dim white light that groped its way through air so wet, it seemed to float around Bridget like the very breath of God. The dead zone ran to either side as a long, unbroken path of streaked jet, fading only within the dark of night and the slow, rolling mist.

Bridget sat in the shallow abyss, marveling at the almost smooth rock, the thick fog. That zone amplified the undercurrent of chirps and buzzes, distant barks and shrill calls. This was the world she’d long dreamed of, the land of warriors. This was where she belonged!

Then she spied the twin jewels sparkling through the night.

“So beautiful,” Bridget whispered. They fascinated her, beckoning her to sit and partake of their magnificence, and yet she had no time to study them, for with each breath these twin orbs grew larger, piercing the mist. Bridget felt their presence in the rock – a low, emerging rumble. The two small suns approached, their light filling the fog, and then like a storm they rolled forth, flooding her ears with thunder.

“Run!” came a brash order. “Get out of there!”

Bridget didn’t heed that. She felt entranced by the brilliant blindness. If she only held her ground, she knew the onrushing stars would soon be upon her. What a glorious experience that would be!

A tiny shadow fell around Bridget, like a black spot against the overwhelming light. Something shoved her into the hard curb. At once the twin jewels swept by, followed by a hot rush of pummeling turbulence. She cowered in the shoulder of the rock, fearing the passing of doom.

But then, just as quick as it had come, the enigma was gone. Bridget was alone in the mist.

No, not alone, she realized. Scarface stood beside her, scowling.

“What were you trying to do?” the old veteran scolded. “Get us both killed?”

“Killed?” Bridget repeated, denoting another word to learn.

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