Diamonds under African skies, part 1: An unlikely mission

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Short Affair challenge, 26 March 2018. Prompts: gloom, brown

A journey takes the UNCLE agents to a Garden of Eden with attendant serpent (a bird snake?)…

With no roads to speak of in the wilds of Africa and no direction signs; with streams and rivers to cross without bridges; with always a nagging fear of breakdown miles from anywhere – as with shipwrecked mariners at sea, if you find anyone in that situation you stop to help.

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