Free A Survivalists Tale by James Rafferty Page A

couple of decades in one of the worst African prisons the law could find. There is so much happened two of your team are getting married, who I asked, well give a girl a chance to tell you, its Tom and Helen, but they won’t get married until you can attend. The others have been catching up with their people, but are planning to start a community together with the team and others who want to opt out of the rat race.
    Just then I saw Pat getting pushed over a bit and another head appeared, it was Carol, Pat said afternoon Carol and carol said afternoon back and then they started to have a conversation about me, as if I wasn’t there. Hoy, I said I'm right here you know, they both burst out laughing and pat said see what you are getting involved with, he’s a right grumpy bugger. Carol said tell me about it if he keeps this up I just might not marry him at all, mind you she said his dads not bad looking for his age. I said ha bloody ha right pair of comedians, just then a pain shot right through my head and the alarms went off, I saw the looks of horror on their faces just before I blacked out again. The crash team came running in closely followed by the doctor, she rushed to the machines and checked them, she then looked at the two worried women picking themselves of the floor. What’s wrong with him doctor they both said at the same time, one of the team re-set the machine as the doctor walked over to where the girls had been laying down talking to Rick and reconnected the tube that had been knocked loose. Oh, he will be fine when he wakes up but you might not want to mention that one of you knocked his meds tube out, he was getting a very strong painkiller and then he wasn’t. Therefore, when the pain hit he passed out, both Pat and Carol looked so embarrassed, the doctor relented and said may be it would be best if we swung the bed up at an angle, so he can see his visitors, rather than have them on the floor she said. With a little smile on her face, she swung the bed so it was like Rick was laying on a steep slope; they got a couple of seats and sat so they could see his face. While waiting for him to come round they looked guiltily at each other, how are we going to tell him we caused him to black out said Pat, simple said Carol I'm blaming you. They both started laughing at the same time, are we going to tell him, Carol said and give him something he can moan about to us, I don’t bloody think so. Well to bloody late ladies I fucking heard you both, trying to flaming kill me well that’s nice, Carol said trust him to come round at the wrong time, typical man, so are any of you pair of hyenas going to tell me what happened. The last thing I knew was the poachers had more trucks coming and more help from the old camp and then nothing. Carol said well it was you who had help from the camp that was us; we came down from the hill and shot the two they left at the bottom of the hill. Then we all ran towards the explosions and shooting, just in time to get the ones charging your position. The trucks you heard were the park rangers and some soldiers, it seemed they caught the ones that were taking bribes and dropped them of tied up when the passed through a big pride of lions, they reckoned the wildlife should get to speak to them about betrayal. So how come the court took our word for everything that happened, well that was another thing none of us had to give testimonies, it was all on camera. I said I saw the cameras and they were no lights showing, that’s true but when you looked at the cameras they were re-setting to record only and when they do that they don’t show lights, it’s to save power they said.  When the storm calmed down a bit the cameras all sent their recorded footage in and it took the editor a little while to realise what was happening, they even had Ian being killed by the poachers. They weren’t kidding when they said they had cameras everywhere, they said they had them out so far for they