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FALLEN GUARDIAN
Samburu County, Kenya
Captain Bernard Lolosoli looked down at the American journalist.
“You were right.”
Tom Klay, sitting with his back against the tire of a Land
Rover, looked up from his notebook. Klay wore a faded safari shirt,
brown field pants, and hiking boots. A droplet of sweat rolled off his
chin and struck the page at the exact spot where he’d just finished a
line, destroying the word and his thought along with it. “It happens,”
he replied.
“Are you ready?” Bernard asked.
Klay closed his notebook and dropped it into his shirt pocket. “All
packed.”
“Good.” The ranger extended his hand. Klay took it and got to his
feet. “Three men entered our east gate two days ago. We located their
vehicle this morning. Their plates are stolen, and there is no exit
record. Their passports were fakes.”
“Passports,” Klay said. “Not locals then.”
“Ugandans. On holiday, they said.”
Klay caught a flicker of movement out of the corner of his eye. A
small male dog emerged from behind the Green Guardians’ field
station, carrying a feathered chicken wing in its mouth. The dog was
scarred head to tail, with that compact build common to developingworld canines. “You get many of those?” he asked.
Bernard followed Klay’s gaze. “Dogs? Or chickens?”
“Ugandans.”
“We do. It was rail workers. Now it’s tourists.” Bernard smiled.
“Thanks to your article, everyone wants to see our famous elephant.”
Klay watched the dog. Every few steps it glanced over its shoulder
toward the guardhouse, checking to see if anything was following it.
The dog set the chicken wing down in the dirt. It looked back again,
expectant. There wasn’t much to see. The concrete field station and
next to it the Guardians’ makeshift field armory, a steel shipping
container under a thatched roof. Between the two structures, the dirt
was stained black with motor oil.
The little dog yipped, and Klay heard agitated scrabbling on hard
ground as a large dog emerged at speed from behind the building
and rocketed toward the mutt. The bigger dog was a Belgian
Malinois, a shepherd breed with relentless drive, making it a favorite
among law enforcement. As the Malinois bore down, the smaller dog
snatched up its chicken wing and sprinted across the clearing. It
hopped onto an overturned bucket and into the crotch of a large
acacia tree.
The Malinois didn’t need the bucket. It leapt straight into the tree
and chased the smaller dog up a thick branch into the tree’s
umbrella. The little dog barked as it climbed. Suddenly a third dog—a
female as small and scarred as the first, but heavy from nursing—
emerged from behind the field station, carrying a whole chicken
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