Katherine pulls her luscious brown hair into a french braid as she glances at the nearby waterhole. What a day, she thinks, as she pulls out her camera from under the seat of her dusty old Jeep. Just then, a female lioness walks noiselessly past her car and halts at the waterhole. She crouches down and starts to lap up the crocodile infested water. Katherine snaps her camera rapidly, feeling extremely lucky; this is her fourth good sighting today. She about the cheetah cubs and the leopard and the black rhino she spotted not long before the lioness. Man, I feel like I’ve won the lottery, Katherine muses excitedly. Exhausted, Katherine turns the key in the ignition and continues to drive through the Kenyan grasslands. As the breezy morning
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Katherine sighs, vultures are pesky, carnivorous creatures that indicate death. Curious, she drives off road towards the circling scavengers. She tries to make out the lifeless shape slumped over in the grass. However, there’s no pride of lions or a cheetah surrounding the body, which is strange considering a kill out here is irresistible to any predator. Only when she realizes it’s the girl’s body does she understand why no animal has bothered to claim it. Katherine gasps and jolts forward from impact of slamming on her brakes. Her mind is spinning as sprints towards the lifeless body. It can’t be, it can’t be, Katherine thinks as tears stream down her cheeks. She kneels down and puts her hand on the girl’s cold chest, furiously trying to find a heartbeat that doesn’t exist. The bite marks and deep gashes down her arms and legs are seeping dark, scarlet colored blood. Katherine’s face turns a sickening pale white, as the vile smell surrounds her. Her eyes are hot with tears, and her brow is layered with a shiny coating of sweat. She curses towards the sky, and then reality settles in. She knows the lions who attacked her could be nearby, and she must leave. As the lazy sun begins to sink below the horizon, Katherine carefully closes her friend’s soft brown eyes, and carries the weightless body towards her
Katherine sighs, vultures are pesky, carnivorous creatures that indicate death. Curious, she drives off road towards the circling scavengers. She tries to make out the lifeless shape slumped over in the grass. However, there’s no pride of lions or a cheetah surrounding the body, which is strange considering a kill out here is irresistible to any predator. Only when she realizes it’s the girl’s body does she understand why no animal has bothered to claim it. Katherine gasps and jolts forward from impact of slamming on her brakes. Her mind is spinning as sprints towards the lifeless body. It can’t be, it can’t be, Katherine thinks as tears stream down her cheeks. She kneels down and puts her hand on the girl’s cold chest, furiously trying to find a heartbeat that doesn’t exist. The bite marks and deep gashes down her arms and legs are seeping dark, scarlet colored blood. Katherine’s face turns a sickening pale white, as the vile smell surrounds her. Her eyes are hot with tears, and her brow is layered with a shiny coating of sweat. She curses towards the sky, and then reality settles in. She knows the lions who attacked her could be nearby, and she must leave. As the lazy sun begins to sink below the horizon, Katherine carefully closes her friend’s soft brown eyes, and carries the weightless body towards her