I went through some kind of "if/then" portal a few decades back.I deprived a garter snake of a meal one time.
It had a toad about half way in and I took.it out
I was tooling along down a twisty mountain road on my motorcycle, and as came around a sharp curve, I saw a big snake in the road with a mouse in its mouth.
He had the mouse by the back end. So Hero Unca stops, goes over and grabs the snake and pulls the mouse out of the snake's mouth and tosses the snake into the grass.
Fuggin' mouse bit me. I dropped it back onto the road, lookin' at my bit pingle. A car came around the curve and ran over the mouse.
There was a message there, and it was plain.