But the bear, its plans for a quick and quiet lamb-napping long since dashed, was already fleeing toward the cover of the dark forest. As it turns out, Hurricane the llama wasn’t finished yet. Raised among sheep, Hurricane was a sheep lover. His best friends were sheep. The llama thought that he himself was a five-foot-nine, four-hundred-pound monster of a sheep. And because he was the biggest, toughest animal on the ranch, he played deputy to Burrington’s sheriff. For years he had patrolled the fence line, scanned the woods for danger, waited with the little ones out in the rain, and
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