Chapter Fifteen

I was touched by their gesture, I knew what this medal meant to them and I bowed to them in thanks making them cheer louder at my actions. Of course, news of what I had done had spread around the camp even the Americans grudgingly gave me their respect but the Afghans were even more terrified of me now.

They believed I had somehow cheated death and they called me the Devil Dog. They did not know how close to the truth they were but I could no longer get near them and I needed to find out where our final targets were hiding before they bombed the airport again. In desperation, I resorted to my inner wolf and l waited until the moon was no more than a sliver in the night sky and the base was shrouded in darkness. I slipped off the base heading for the local's homes. It was easy to silence their dogs with a quick command to their minds as I wandered amongst them listening intensely. It did not take me long to discover their meeting, I lay silently beneath the open window as they plotted