The reality bites: somewhere, within the rangers’ compound, there’s a tourist wearing a dressing gown no doubt taking photos of poisonous reptiles or— A dry, coughing roar sounds from the game fence a little too close for comfort. Now it all comes swimming back – half the reason why I even got Melissa back to my bungalow in the first place. I told her that the lion enclosure is adjacent to the rangers’ compound. And that some mornings I wake to watch the lions come down to one of the water holes. Shit. f**k. Zuma’s blue balls. I phone Khwezi and fill her in on the basics. She’s silent for so long I worry that she’s dropped the call. “Sis? What do I do?” My heart’s about to thump its way out of my chest and I think I really will puke. “Oh my god, Andile. This is bad. This is

