Dinoverse by Mike Fredericks

Author:Mike Fredericks
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Nonfiction
ISBN: 9780375805448
Publisher: Random House Children's Books
Published: 1999-11-05T00:00:00+00:00

Mike looked to the skies once more, but there was nothing to see except a few soft clouds and the glaring light of morning.

Janine was gone.

PART THREE

Quetzalcoatlus Quiz

Chapter 18

JANINE

Clouds reached out and engulfed her with fine white tendrils of mist. Brilliant light flashed before her. The wind caressed her wings. She moved in an elegant ballet, the currents lifting her and turning her in their gentle, invisible hands.

Janine flew—and it was glorious. She’d never known anything like this, not even in dreams. Loki was beside her. His golden body was magnificent.

As they pierced the clouds and dropped below them, she studied his rippling muscles. The streaks of gray, blue, and scarlet adorning his body suddenly became blurs as he dived. Slicing through the air, Loki grew smaller, barreling down, twisting and flying toward the greenish mass that was a copse of trees far below. Then he leveled off, caught by a draft of air that gave him speed enough to disappear from view in seconds.

Janine was gripped by a sudden panic. She had to follow him. She needed him. He was all she had in this strange world! Raising her head in alarm, Janine chided herself: Are you kidding me? Just listen to yourself!

She waited, resisting the urge to chase after him. He’ll come back, she told herself. You watch...

Janine gradually flew lower. She saw a group of Triceratops feeding on low-lying shrubs and playing near a pond. A few miles down, she saw a pair of Tyrannosaurus eyeing each other warily, their wounded prey, an Ankylosaurus, attempting to crawl away. The club-tail looked a little like Bertram, but she knew it wasn’t him. Two days had passed since she left the group. They’d be a good fifty or sixty miles west by now. More, considering how far she’d traveled.

Below, she saw a herd of hadrosaurs with three-foot-long tubelike crests on their skulls marching across a field. Beautiful, yet mournful, sounds rose up from them. Janine briefly wondered if something was wrong—then reminded herself that she had to stop judging all she saw and heard by human standards. These Parasaurolophus weren’t human and neither was she. Not anymore.

Ten miles ahead, she encountered a smaller group of hadrosaurs. The sounds from the first herd came and they answered.

Janine got it. This was how they communicated over long distances. Like elephants. She rose higher. Shapes appeared in the distance. Other flyers. She wondered how they would take to her. Only one way to find out...

Janine glided unhurriedly until she came to a great ravine. Three fellow Quetzalcoatlus soared near a waterfall, one going close enough to refresh himself in the chill, frothing spray. Loki wasn’t with them.

Janine cawed and waited. They responded with sharp, friendly cries of their own. Janine flew closer.

The flyers were older than she, with greater wingspans. She lowered her head and flew toward the waterfall, careful to allow only the spray to reach her. She sensed that if she flew into the falls themselves, she would be slapped down by the heavy force of the water to the jagged rocks below.

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