"Oh, crap!", Jim yelled as he dropped away from Sharon. Sharon watched him fall and wondered what was keeping her up. Looking over her shoulders she realised that it was her wings.
Sharon did a double take. A pair of golden feathered wings spread out from her lower shoulders and mid back, holding her aloft. She wondered breifly why she had wing and Jim didn't; but focused on the imediate problem. She had to save her boyfriend.
Pulling her wings closed, Sharon dived after her plumetting boyfriend. Unfortunately he had too much of a head start. How was she... oh, of course! Sharon flexed her wings -- too concerned with the need for speed to wonder at how she knew how to use them -- and began to catch up with Jim.
Then she noticed something alarming. Jim's hands were empty. Apparently the surprise of his sudden fall had made him let go of the ring. Sharon picked up a glint of metal spinning towards the ground and decided...
Mon Oct 25 01:21:47 1999