[1-2] The Tail

[Amber Veritz]

If wasn’t already bad enough that Amber was nervous about being thousands of feet in the air, now she could feel the plane moving in an odd manner. Almost like it was about to fail, like a car that just ran out of gas. That was until it really did start to drop altitude. The cat girl’s first reaction was to scream, loudly. Not too much longer, the plane split down the middle separating the nose of the plane from the tail. Amber took both her hands and jammed her claws into the seat in front of her, obviously not caring if someone was still in the seat. Luckily, there wasn’t.


When the plane hit the ground, Amber bashed her head on the seat in front of her and was nearly instantly knocked out cold. After a good sum of time passed, she slowly awoke to a slight headache. Shaking her head free, Amber observed her situation. Oh great, the way the plane had landed, she was a thirty feet up high and sitting at a near ninety-degree angle. “I always thought I was going to die in a plane crash. Looks like the gods just want me to suffer instead.” Sneered Amber as she looked around. It seems like some others survived, she could hear people talking, but couldn’t see them.

“Okay, let’s carefully just unbuckle this seatbelt and work our way to the ground.” She talked like someone was with her, yet she was not speaking to anyone. A good tug on the belt informed the cat girl that she was in for a bad time. It was stuck. “You have got to be freakin’ kiddin’ me.”  The metal that locks the belt in place must have bent up in the locking mechanism. A pink light lit up on Amber’s finger, the only way out was to cut herself loose. A quick motion of her finger against the material of the belt was enough to break her free. Though the youth didn’t expect gravity to take hold of her so easily and she started to plummet to the ground. They say that all cats land on their feet from a fall. That was most certainly a lie. Amber was nowhere near agile enough to even try and land on her feet. With a loud thunk, she landed on her back, lucky that she was not impaled by any loose debris that poked up from the ground like a stalagmite. Dust puffed up around her as she laid there in slight pain.”Dammit, why can’t things just work out simply and smoothly for once?” She questioned herself while rolling around and coughing in the dirt trying to ignore the pain to stand back up.