Tendai and Martine have rifles to protect themselves from the animals they are hunting which puts them in a rough spot because they were also spotted by the poachers. At the safari, they see some poachers attacking animals in the wild. She believes that fate brought Martine to Africa to protect the white giraffe. This gift is that she is connected to the animals like no one else is. Grace is an older woman who explains to Martine that she thinks Martine has a "gift".
He is also the first person to meet Martine once she gets to Africa. Tendai is a worker for Gwyn Thomas on her safari reserve. "Grace came to tell us that she's had a vision of you being the child in the African legend, the one that has power over all the animals." Gwyn Thomas is the person that first introduced the White Giraffe to Martine as she told her that the white giraffe is known to leave foot marks on the ground from where it goes. Gwyn Thomas is and owner of her own Safari reserve that Tendai works at. Martine and Gwyn Thomas have never met before so the situation is hard for the both of them. Gwyn Thomas is Martine's grandmother and the person who is given the responsibility to watch Martine after her parents died in the house fire. "Everything happens for a reason Jemmy", Martine says that to Jemmy as she is with him one night looking up at the stars. Jemmy even saves Martine from getting bit by a deadly cape cobra. Jemmy even takes Martine to his secret cave where he stays during the day. Stranger yet it is a white giraffe, who Martine named Jemmy become close friends. But this friend isn't like an ordinary friend, and not a person but a giraffe. Martine meets a new friend soon after she arrives in Africa.
When she arrives in Africa, Martine meets her new friend Tendai, who works on the game reserve owned by her grandmother Gwyn Thomas. Now an orphan, Martine is forced to be shipped from England where she lived with her parents, now to far away South Africa. Once everything is settled, Martine finds out that her parents were unable to get out in time and died. She escapes out her bedroom window and is met outside of her house by people surrounded on the sidewalk and streets as they watch the house go up in flames even as firefighters come to try to put the fire out. But the good part of that life comes to an end when a fire starts up during a night in Martine's house. Has a house, parents and everything she could ask for. Martine is an eleven year old girl who has it good in life.
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