Llama have been used to safeguard livestock
so they have begun to put them on the outposts
of the city to keep us in.
The males are separated from each other
because if they stay together
they tend to bond, and not protect us
from our nature predators,
the Wealthy.

As it stands
the wealthy rarely come to attack us physically,
so the Llamas have taken to studying pricing trends
and insurance scams and other strategies used
to keep us in our place
such as penning us into cities in the first place.
It is ironic that their role as our guardian
leaves them trying to help us
even as they rein us in.

It is a strange world we have
with our new protective llama
and though I could certainly imagine another one
I do not see how it could be quite so soft.