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With the cable wrapped around the tree, the counterbalancing weight of the Jeep was enough to hold the second trailer on the rim of the cliff.
He shook his head, defeated. She had seen that gesture before in her life, that futile shake, giving up. She hated to see it. Harding never gave up. Not ever.
“Okay, Ian. Let’s go.” Malcolm said, “I can’t do it, Sarah. Seriously.” “Then lean on me. I’ll carry you.” “But—” “Now, damn it!”
I'd do what she says Ian
Arby listened to their voices distantly. He was turned away, staring off at the river in the darkened plain. He waited impatiently for the next lightning flash. Waited to see if it was true, what he had seen earlier.
Tell someone Arb
“Sorry about that,” Sarah said, and she pulled him up by his hair.
YOWCH JEEZ SARAH
the trailer broke all connection, and fell free down the cliff face, growing smaller and smaller, until it smashed on the rocks far below.
In pale shades of luminous green, Arby saw the raptors clearly. There were twelve of them, moving in a loose cluster through the grass, heading in the direction of the high hide.
Maybe they smell the candy wrappers
“Sarah,” Malcolm said, “I owe you my life.” “Never mind, Ian.” “No, no, I do.” “Ian,” she said, looking at him. “This sincerity is not like you.” “It’ll pass,” he said, and smiled a little.
“Because I have to clean the wound out, Ian. And you’re not going to like it when I do.” Malcolm sighed. He turned to Thorne. “It’s always something, isn’t it? Go on, Sarah, do your damnedest.”
At least she didn't haul you over a cliff by your hair
Levine didn’t understand why anyone was afraid. They were perfectly secure, high up here.
That hubris is going to cost you dearly someday.
The animals came around the side of the structure, and were about to continue on, when the nearest animal paused. It fell behind the rest of the pack, sniffing the air. Then it bent over, and began to poke its snout through the grass around the bottom of the hide. What was it doing? Levine wondered.
I think it found your candy wrappers dude
It was a piece of wrapping paper from a candy bar. The raptor looked up at the high hide, its eyes glowing. It stared right at Levine. And it snarled.
Idiot.
Eddie lost his balance, twisted, and fell backward, toppling over the side. He cried “Nooo!” as he fell. Immediately all the animals dropped down to the ground. They heard Eddie screaming in the night. The raptors snarled.
Oh fuck poor Eddie
In the dying light of the flare, she saw that Arby was inside the cage. He had managed to close the door, and was reaching his hand back through the bars, to turn the key in the lock.
Clever boy.
He hoped he had a gun. Levine wanted to kill every one of these damned animals. He wanted to kill them all.
How quickly things change.
“Don’t be crazy,” Levine said. “Face facts. We’ve lost the kid, Doc. It’s too bad, but we’ve lost him.”
Wow fuck you dude
“He didn’t give up on you,” he said. “And we’re not giving up on him.”
At least Thorne's got the right attitude
These newly created raptors came into the world with no older animals to guide them, to show them proper raptor behavior. They were on their own, and that was just how they behaved—in a society without structure, without rules, without cooperation. They lived in an uncontrolled, every-creature-for-himself world where the meanest and the nastiest survived, and all the others died.
Okay, but then how do the other dinosaurs know how to care for their young?
on to
One word
He guessed he was probably about half a mile from the clearing, and the trailer. Half a mile to go.
Or you'll lead them right to the trailer. Better hope that bear-zapper still works.
Levine thought, It’s all over.
Quitter.
Levine took it numbly, almost dropped it. He was in shock. Moving slowly. Dumbly. I nearly died, he thought.
Focus, Levine.
She heard the sound of scraping metal, from over by the door, and then saw that the raptors were dragging the motorbike away from the trailer. They were hopping up and down on it in fury.
Petty
The raptor shook its head, biting into the cylinder. “What do we do now?” Kelly said. There was a loud explosion, and a cloud of dense white smoke blasted outward across the clearing.
Now it worked.
A wire rack nearby held candy bars and Twinkies, the wrappers speckled green, crawling with larvae.
Ew
Thorne was squeezing his arm hard. He leaned close to Levine. “You’re too old to act like an asshole,” he said quietly.
I love Thorne
And then, as he waited, he heard the unmistakable sound of breathing.
Ugh did we just find Dodgson
But he suspected the most likely explanation was also the simplest—that the area around the laboratory was some other animal’s territory, it was scent-marked and demarcated and defended, and the raptors were reluctant to enter it. Even the tyrannosaur, he remembered now, had gone through the territory quickly, without stopping. But whose territory?
Spinosaurus?
He had been relishing his remarkable discovery, a truly unanticipated feature of dinosaurs—although not, of course, entirely without precedent among related vertebrates—and now this little musclebound female was barking orders at him.
LOL just do what she says Richard
The dinosaurs bellowed again, and took a menacing step toward the lights. But it was half-hearted. They clearly didn’t like being around these moving sources. After a moment, they shuffled off, the lights following them, driving them away past the tennis courts.
Quitters
Levine frowned. “What’re prions?” Malcolm sighed. “Ian,” Levine said. “What are prions?” “Go away,” Malcolm said, waving his hand.
This is literally the most on-brand conversation
The huge animals clustered around the Jeep, and immediately began to tear it apart.
Rude
Then the top of one case tore away, and they saw a cracked egg inside. Protruding from the egg was a wrinkled bit of flesh. The maiasaurs slowed.
Ooooooh right I forgot about that
Slowly, one of the maiasaurs ducked its huge head down, and gently scooped the baby up in its broad bill. It kept its mouth open as it raised its head. The baby sat calmly on the adult’s tongue, looking around with its tiny head as it rose high into the air.
I'm glad it had a happy ending after all
Leaving behind a crumpled, shattered vehicle. Thorne said, “I guess gas is no longer a problem.” “I guess not,” Sarah said.
lmao
Levine snorted. “Engineers in Detroit didn’t expect a five-ton animal to stand on it.”
Nobody does.
“It’s our only chance,” she said. She pulled on her radio headset, adjusted the microphone to her cheek, and rolled the motorcycle to the door. “Call me,” she said. “I’m going to go find us a car.”
You dudes would all be so dead without her
“Yeah? What should I do?” “Try screwing down the cover on your battery pack. It’s probably loose.” “No. I mean, what should I do about the car?” Thorne said, “What?” “I’m at the car, Doc. I’m there. What should I do?”
She's literally a century ahead of them
Dodgson listened, and smiled. So there was a car.
Tell me he doesn't make it back to Cali with a dinosaur or two
“Okay fine,” she said. “But tell me first. Is Levine there?” “He’s here.” The radio clicked. She said, “Ask him if there’s any danger from a green dinosaur that’s about four feet tall and has a domed forehead.”
Whup
triangular-shaped
Triangle
She looked at Dodgson. His eyes were wide with terror. The tyrannosaur paused beside the car.
PUSH HIM OUT SARAH SACRIFICE HIM FOR THE GREATER GOOD
Dodgson turned to look at her just as her boots began to push against his lower legs. Pushing them out from beneath the car.
ATTAGIRL
In a high-pitched voice, Dodgson said, “What the hell are you doing?”
What the hell does it look like she's doing?
The hot breath of the animal whooshed in snorts over his body. Saliva dripped onto his torso. He thought he would pass out from terror. But the jaws never closed.
Ugh I don't like this the bastard will probably weasel his way back out
Inside the store, they stared at the tiny monitor as Dodgson was carried away in the jaws of the tyrannosaur. Over the radio, they heard his tinny distant screams. “You see?” Malcolm said. “There is a God.”
“The rex didn’t kill him.” He pointed to the screen. “Look, there, you can see his arms are still moving. Why didn’t it kill him?”
REVENGEEEEEEE
Sarah Harding waited until the screams faded. She crawled out from beneath the car, standing up in the morning light.
Their ten minutes have to be way up
She saw the pilot behind the bubble, wearing dark glasses. The pilot checked his watch, shook his head to the copilot, and then began to lift off.
Well they didn't try very hard
She was surprised to find she had no feeling about him at all. She watched dispassionately as the tyrannosaur left the road, and headed off down a slope, back into the jungle.
Uh yeah he literally tried to kill you
