I stayed on my knees beside Titan and the little girl.<\/p>\n
Her mother was only a few feet away.<\/p>\n
\u201cPlease get my daughter!\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI will.\u201d<\/p>\n
I kept my voice calm.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut nobody move yet.\u201d<\/p>\n
Titan\u2019s growl became deeper.<\/p>\n
His eyes never left the pile of leaves.<\/p>\n
Then I heard it.<\/p>\n
A faint sound beneath the shouting.<\/p>\n
Dry.<\/p>\n
Sharp.<\/p>\n
Close.<\/p>\n
Something was hidden in the grass beside the child.<\/p>\n
That was what Titan had detected.<\/p>\n
He had not charged across the park because he wanted to hurt her.<\/p>\n
He had reached her before she could move any closer to whatever was concealed beneath those leaves.<\/p>\n
Suddenly every detail made sense.<\/p>\n
The way his body became rigid.<\/p>\n
The first ignored command of his career.<\/p>\n
The desperate sprint.<\/p>\n
The way he knocked the girl away from the bushes.<\/p>\n
The way he kept her on the ground instead of letting her stand.<\/p>\n
Titan had seen danger before any human in the park understood it was there.<\/p>\n
I looked toward the terrified crowd.<\/p>\n
Minutes earlier, people had been ready to condemn him.<\/p>\n
Now nobody moved.<\/p>\n
I slowly reached toward the child while Titan remained fixed on the hidden threat.<\/p>\n
For the first time since the chaos began, I understood exactly what my partner had been trying to tell me.<\/p>\n
He had never lost control.<\/p>\n
He had taken control before the rest of us even knew we were in danger.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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