Polar Yeti And The Beasts Of Prehistory by Dennion Matthew

Author:Dennion, Matthew [Dennion, Matthew]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Severed Press
Published: 2015-11-29T18:30:00+00:00

Chapter 12

Henry said a small prayer as he threw the cold snow over two more of the deceased graduate students. Gordon had pointed out that they needed to bury or burn the bodies of both the rescue team members and the teratorns in order to prevent attracting more of the ravenous giant birds. Henry had taken the coat from the dead student that he was burying. The student would not need the coat anymore, and with the tear in Henry’s coat, he would face freezing to death in the quickly approaching night. Henry did a quick count in his head. His rescue party had shrunken from a team of twenty-four people to a team of sixteen. They had only been in the valley for a few hours and they had already lost a third of the team. Henry felt like mentally scolding himself for losing the lives of the team members. He took a deep breath and reminded himself that he still had sixteen other people who he needed to get out of this valley alive. He knew full well that cursing and doubting himself would do nothing to help him reach the goal of getting the rest of the team out alive. With that in mind, he pushed the self-blame to the back of his mind and focused on what the next step was in getting the rest of the team members home safely.

Henry looked around to see Gordon finishing up burying one of the teratorns. To Gordon’s left, Rodgers was using his hunting knife to slice the head off one of the dead teratorns. Henry had no doubt that Rodgers would try to take the head home, have it stuffed, and take full credit for killing the monster himself. Rodgers had finished his grizzly task just as the sun started to set over the mountains. Rodgers took a moment to point at the decapitated teratorn. “This dammed bird’s feathers are far thicker than I thought they would be.” The hunter shrugged. “Thick feathers must be some sort of adaptation they have made in order to survive in the cold down here.”

Gordon gestured the other two men to head back to cave. Rodgers picked up the teratorn head and followed Gordon back up to the slope to the cave. When they had entered the large cave, Henry was pleased to see that the remaining team members had set up over a dozen insulated tents. The cave was large enough that all of the tents were able to be spaced along its floor with room to spare. Henry had not taken the time to notice before when the teratorns were attacking but the cave seemed to have no end. Henry wondered how far the cave went into the mountain but he quickly pushed the thought aside rationalizing that now was not the time to go on a spelunking trip.

Gordon called over Henry, Rodgers, and Dana. When they were all gathered in a tight circle, Gordon reviewed their current status with them.

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