My stomach dropped through my shoes onto the paved paths; it couldn’t be, the hyenas were loose! True, they were scavengers of the dead but they would kill for fresh meat! It was early enough in the morning that there are only employees inside the park, but the gates will be opening in about…half and hour!

Hurriedly, I looked around for the special call boxes that we kept around for emergencies, but that was more for injured guests, we never thought that we would have animals get loose; we took all of the precautions! I ran to the nearest one and frantically dialled the head office and informed them of the escape and had to hold it away from my ear as I was being yelled at; as if this was my fault those spotted menaces escaped! The fault would lie on the ones in security who were supposed to check these things!

No, that may only be partially right, the fault should mostly lie on the scientists who thought that the solution to the problem of animals going extinct was to cross breed them with humans, because I would bet my life savings that they inherited man’s cleverness and that was how they escaped. Either way, we were in trouble as they were still technically cannibals…