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“He’s in shock from the injury, Ian. You can kill him with too much morphine. You’ll put him into respiratory arrest. His adrenal glands are probably stressed, too.”
The radio clicked, and Levine said, “Speak for yourself, Ian. In point of fact, I suspect we will find that dinosaurs have hormones. There are compelling reasons to imagine they do. As long as you have gone to the misguided trouble of taking the baby, you might draw some tubes of blood. Meanwhile, Doc, could you pick up the phone?” Malcolm sighed. “That guy,” he said, “is starting to get on my nerves.”
lol "starting"
“We don’t know, is the point. And I don’t want to alarm anybody. But why don’t you bring the kids out to the high hide for a while? And why don’t you and Eddie come, too?” “You’re telling me to get the hell out of here. You really think it’s necessary?” “In a word,” Levine said, “yes. I do.”
whirr
Whir
He picked up a bit of candy bar wrapper from the floor of the shelter, and dropped it, watching it flutter off in the wind.
Why
He could almost feel the deck beneath his feet. Maybe one of the fishermen would even have a beer. A nice cold beer, while they chugged down the river, and pulled out of this damned island. He’d toast Dodgson, is what he’d do. Maybe, he thought, I’ll have two beers.
#priorities
They were some kind of green dinosaurs, about four feet tall, with big domed heads and a bunch of little horns.
Pachycephalosauruses
Finally his front bumper nudged the nearest animal, which grunted, took a couple of steps back, lowered its head, and butted the front of the car, hard, with a metallic clang!
It's giving Nedry. I'm thinkin' this is going to be King's final scene.
Several of them lay down on the road. He couldn’t drive over them.
Time to get out and walk
But now more animals were charging him. He had no choice. He ran around the back of the car, just as another animal smashed into the rear taillight, shattering the plastic.
Yep he's not making it
From the other side of the shelter Arby said, “Look! Look!” “What is it?” Levine said. “It’s a man.”
Oop guess the raptors will get something for their troubles after all
Obviously, he would have to follow the river, until it brought him to the boat.
Buddy you're missing that boat no matter what
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Into
any more.
One word
From their vantage point, they could see the dark shapes of the raptors, moving through the grass on the other side of the river.
“Oh no,” Arby said.
Oh yes >:D
He dodged, changed direction, but suddenly the nearest lizard leapt in the air. It jumped so high its body cleared the grass; he could see the entire animal flying through the air, its two hind legs raised to pounce.
The lizard seemed to be moving incredibly fast. He thought: I’m not going to make it.
Uh yeah what kind of pathetic raptor can't even catch a human
There were now five raptors snarling around the man’s body, tearing viciously at the carcass.
One down
One animal came up, with something brown hanging from its jaws. The animal got an odd expression on its face as it chewed. Then it turned away from the rest of the pack, and held the brown object carefully in its forearms. In the growing darkness, it took Levine a moment to recognize what it was doing: it was eating a candy bar. And it seemed to be enjoying it.
Levine lowered his glasses, and looked at the two kids. They were staring silently and calmly at the kill.
That's troubling
Dodgson was awakened by a noisy chittering, like the sound of a hundred tiny birds.
Compys it better be compys s2fg
There was a little green dinosaur standing beside his hand. It leaned over, and bit his finger in its tiny jaws, tugging at the flesh. His fingers were bleeding; ragged chunks of flesh had already been bitten away.
YES
Revolted, Dodgson jumped to his feet, scattering the lizards, which hopped away, chirping in annoyance.
Now that's what I call fast food
They turned back, and stared at him, showing no sign of fear. On the contrary, they seemed to be waiting. That was when he realized what they were. They were procompsognathids. Compys.
Christ, he thought. They thought I was dead.
Were they wrong Lew
When he did not move, the animals began to inch forward. He stood up, and they backed away. But a moment later, they began to come forward again.
He had to get back to the boat. He would be safe at the boat.
It's cute that you think the boat is still there
As he started walking, the compys chittered and followed after him. They stayed about five or ten feet behind, making a lot of noise as they hopped and crashed through the low foliage. There were dozens of them, he realized.
Some time
One word
But he was safe for the moment.
WHY
Malcolm said, “I’ve noticed, the largest animals seem small. It’s as if they don’t seem to reach maturity. Maybe they’re being killed off early.”
“There have been dinosaurs on this island for five years, maybe more,” Malcolm said, “but none have appeared elsewhere. Suddenly, in the last year, carcasses of dead animals are showing up on the beaches of Costa Rica, and according to reports, on islands of the Pacific as well.”
“But something triggered the sensors?” “I guess.” “Wind?” “There’s no wind,” he said.
Mama's here
Over the radio, they heard Malcolm say, “It’s the lights! The lights are drawing them.”
TURN OFF THE LIGHT TURN OFF THE LIGHT
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of
He glanced over at Sarah, and saw that she was intent, watching the movements of the animals. “This isn’t hunting behavior,” she whispered.
“Not hunting,” she said. “They’re searching, Ian.” A moment later, the second tyrannosaur bellowed in reply. Then the big head swung down, and peered in through the window in front of them,
Period
The tyrannosaur’s head swung away, moving back from the trailer, and for a moment Malcolm breathed more easily. But then the head swung back, and slammed with a heavy thud into the trailer, rocking it hard.
But after the initial violence it stopped, and became delicate in its movements. It sniffed the baby, starting at the head, moving slowly down the body. It sniffed the cast, too, and licked it briefly with its tongue. Finally, it rested its lower jaw lightly on the baby’s chest. It stayed that way for a long time, not moving. Only the eyes blinked slowly, staring at Sarah.
T_T
They could hear its high-pitched squeaking as one of the adults took the baby in its jaws, and gently placed it in a fork among the high branches of a tree.
T______T
And then both animals charged the trailer at full speed, racing across the clearing toward them. “Oh, my God,” Sarah said.
REVENGEEEEEEE
“They’re pushing us,” he said. “Where, Ian?” “To the edge of the clearing.” The tyrannosaurs slammed again, and the trailer moved farther. “They’re pushing us over the cliff.”
“Why are they doing that?” Thorne said to Levine, standing beside him. “I suspect,” he said, “that we have changed the perceived territory.”
And I’m afraid that, by moving the baby, we redefined their territory to include the clearing where the baby was found. So now they’re going to defend their territory, by driving out the trailers.”
Thorne turned to Eddie. “I’m going!” he said.
Oh no
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Into
She was looking through the windshield of the trailer, hanging down the side of the cliff. They were not falling any more. But they were hanging precariously in space.
Coming around a curve, he saw the red Jeep, standing in the middle of the ridge road, its taillights flashing.
The only time Dodgson has ever been useful
Thorne turned on his lights again, and drove forward slowly. The tyrannosaurs were gone. In the pale beam of the headlamps, he saw the second trailer. With a continuous metallic squeal, it was still sliding slowly across the wet grass, toward the edge of the cliff.
