'Last Patrols.'

Chapter 34

Dec 24, 2023

∙ Paid

Left - pink and grey sunset tinged clouds over a lapping sea on a black beach with 2 figures in the distance. Middle - Whimbrel on the beach looking out to sea. It is standing on a black beach. Right, cumulonimbus clouds tower over the jungle canopy with a dark beach in the foreground — Tortuguero Beach Scenes

For my second-to-last patrol, I was delighted to discover Gayor had rostered me on a shift with one other Research Assistant. In my eyes, I’d ‘made it’. Gayor trusted me enough to send me out with just one other person rather than a pair of interns, where I felt like a third wheel, an accessory rather than someone with a vital role to play. The only pro…

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