Flashback: Age 9
Angelo was down on his belly in the grass, examining a caterpillar as it worked it's way along the leaf of a flower, when a cry caught his attention. He looked up to see his friend Maria standing under a tree, calling up into it's branches.
Concern for a damsel in distress motivating him, he ambled over to examine what the problem was. 'Kitty!' was the only explanation he got, and sure enough, upon looking up, there was a small kitten, no more than a few months old, in the crook of a branch.
"Just a minute, I'll--" Angelo started saying, about to head next door for an adult, when Maria started crying. That shut down several processes in his head, and he was scrambling up the tree. He wasn't bad at it either, he reached the kitten quickly, and scooped it up in one arm. "Calmi giù. Lo ho, quello piccolo."
That was when there was the creak, which quickly turned into a crack, as the limb came tumbling down. Grabbing a new hold would have required dropping the kitten. Unacceptable. So down he went, turning the kitten away from the ground, and coming down hard on one side, his head knocking against the limb as well.
A few moments later, he was aware of a numbness in one arm, that something was licking his head, and that Maria sounded absolutely terrified.
Then he saw his arm.
Oh... Mother and Father were going to be furious.
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