Dinosaur Lake IV Dinosaur Wars by Kathryn Meyer Griffith

Author:Kathryn Meyer Griffith
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Kathryn Meyer Griffith
Published: 2016-09-12T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 14

Ann felt better than she had in months, which was a good thing because, now of all times, her family needed her to be healthy, to be strong. The last clash had shown them the war had resumed and their defenses were lacking. It had cost them lives. That, her husband had vowed, could not be repeated.

Henry had been out the last week with the other men shoring up the gate and the barricades. They’d done everything they could think of to make it safer for everyone inside headquarters. They’d plunged more spikes into the earth on the outside and dug deeper pits in strategic places to trap any dinosaurs that wandered too near.

The soldiers went out on patrol every day in the tanks and engaged the enemy whenever and wherever they could find them, killing many, but the creatures kept on coming as if there was a dinosaur factory somewhere churning them out like chickens from eggs. The weather had warmed and the snow was melting below the rim of the caldera. The dinosaurs had become bolder, moving in closer to the humans. Her husband speculated they were so ravenous they were stalking the compound with desperate eyes, waiting for a chance to break down their defenses. No one dared leave the safety of headquarters without being heavily armed or protected. It was agreed upon the doctor couldn’t leave to return to her hospital in Nampa on the original schedule. She’d wanted to stay a week and then go home; that was not to be. It was too dangerous and Henry couldn’t spare the men to escort her. Not yet anyway. Doctor Emily had not been pleased about that development because she didn’t want to abandon her Nampa patients, they depended on her, but she understood. She was smart enough to know, at this time, there was no way to guarantee her safe passage home or those with her. For now she was remaining at Crater Lake.

In some ways, other than abandoning her patients, Ann didn’t sense staying longer would be much of an inconvenience for the doctor. The growing romance between her and Steven was easy for all to see. Steven rarely left her side and the two behaved like a couple already. The looks between them were those of lovers. Ann for one was happy to see Steven in love. It’d been many years since his wife had died and he’d been lonely long enough. In the world in which they now lived it was good to see people could still fall in love and find a little happiness. Dinosaurs or no dinosaurs, life and death, the world, humanity, carried on.

“Timothy. Timothy! No, don’t pick the kitty up like that,” Ann admonished, chuckling. The child held the cat around the neck as he hugged him and the look on the animal’s face was priceless. Resigned acceptance. The cat loved the boy, loved all of them, so Ann was sure he wouldn’t hurt him, but she wanted the child to learn how to be gentle with his pet so she was firm with him.

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