The tornado was close
It was coming straight for our farm house
It sounded like ten locomotives coming up the driveway
Klaus suddenly appeared beside me
He was dressed in his Hawk suit
Especially designed for a day like this
Klaus had been working on it for months
‘We should get to the basement now Klaus’ I said
Klaus just smiled and opened the front door
He was sucked up into the darkness before I could blink
We never saw Klaus again
I found his feathered Hawk shoe about a year later by the old well
I picked it up
And I started laughing
A deep hardy laugh
Like a bear would laugh if some other bear told him a good joke about a dear or something
When I finished laughing
I got up
I pictured Klaus in the stupid Hawk Suit
Spinning around the in wind
And wondered why I ever even thought of Klaus as a friend at all