oo1. I Thout I Saw A Putty-Cat! - [Solo]
A brisk wind whipped a pile of colorful fall leaves around in wild whirlwinds; small hurricanes of red, yellow, gold, and orange. The street was quiet as Elda turned the corner, the warm afternoon sun shining through the windows of the car, warming it presently. She slowed as she approached the house, its tall trees and spacious law protecting its privacy.
Another gust of wind and something in the street caught her attention. Lying in the road near the gutter was a lump of ratty black fur. She stopped the car. Whatever it was it looked hurt.
She got out of the car and approached the lump carefully, looking down at it; it turned its battered head toward her and mewed pitifully. She ghasped, the thing had only one eye. She heard a car pull up behind her, and looked over her shoulder. There was a portly man with a thick mustache in the driver’s seat, his squinty eyes we watching her intently. The cat mewed again, and she returned her attention to it.
“Poor thing. . .” She muttered soothingly as the bent over the pick up the wounded animal. But just as she reached out to touch it’s battered body, it burst into flames! She jumped back, her eyes wide as she watched to kitty burn. She run for the car, desperately looking for something she could use to put out the flames.
She didn’t hear the other car pull away, but when she looked up again it was gone.
All she could find was her gym clothes, but they would have to work. Grabbing the t-shirt she rushed back to the cat, only to find the flames were almost out, it had burned unnaturally quickly.
There was nothing she could do now, so she walked back to the car again, her heart heavy, throwing her clothes into the back seat she was about to start the car up again when she heard a soft cry, not so unlike noise the cat had made. But there was no way that thing could still be alive!
She walked carefully back to the spot when the pile of burnt cat had laid, but found instead, a tiny baby laying there. She looked around herself carefully, this was all too weird. But the tiny girl mewed again, and she felt her heart break at the sound. Scooping the child up in her arms, she sprinted back to the car.
