The Fall of the Phoenix

A part of the arrow that pierced the bird was a tragedy to its last breath. For the plume of its friend and savior was its cause of demise.

"A bird stared at the familiar feather attached to the arrow that struck it, it was the feathers of its friend. The shame of how the one who saved the struck bird's life would also have been the one to end it enveloped the bird until its last breath."