Shirts and jeans litter the asphalt, the empty fabric limbs askew as if they're attempting to escape. Blood smears Sarah's lips as she struggles against the chest of a dirty looking man with a beard. Terror. Terror is the only word my mind can seize on and it forgets what it means. I forget how to think - to move.
Most people are like sheep. Nice, harmless creatures who want nothing more than to be left alone so they can graze. But then of course there are wolves. Who want nothing more than to eat the sheep.But there__ a third kind of person. The sheepdog. Sheepdogs have fangs like wolves. But their instinct isn__ predation. It__ protection. All they want, what they live for, is to protect the flock.
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Most people are like sheep. Nice, harmless creatures who want nothing more than to be left alone so they can graze. But then of course there are wolves. Who want nothing more than to eat the sheep.But there__ a third kind of person. The sheepdog. Sheepdogs have fangs like wolves. But their instinct isn__ predation. It__ protection. All they want, what they live for, is to protect the flock.
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