No Time For Dinosaurs by John Benjamin Sciarra

Author:John Benjamin Sciarra
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-04-19T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter Thirty-Nine

Dr. Donavan and Dr. Bashan sat in silence after listening to the girls tell the story of their foray into the past. No one had retained any knowledge of what had taken place after Kyle brought Priti into the future; it was as if that had never happened. The paradox was no longer a threat as long as Kyle didn’t bring Priti back again—or anything else for that matter. But they also didn’t know that Kyle had no intention of bringing Priti back.

“We have to stop Kyle from bringing the dinosaur back,” said Dr. Bashan. “But how do we do that?”

“We would have to launch the capsule again according to the girls.” They both shook their heads. “Maybe we can place a note in the capsule.”

“What about the T-rex leg?” asked Dr. Bashan.

“It doesn’t matter. We don’t have any other choice. We have to send the capsule back.”

“It is settled then?”

“Yes. And, we have to leave the shoestring in the capsule as well. Odd though. It doesn’t look like a shoestring from Kyle’s sneakers. What do you make of that, Paul?”

“It almost looks like the string from your shoe.”

“Hmm. Indeed it does. How strange. How soon can we launch?”

Write your note and place it in the capsule. Oh, and include the story of the previous trip. No telling how much of the past, present or future will be remembered if he comes back.”

“When he comes back,” Sonja corrected.

“How can you be so sure?” asked her father.

“I just know,” replied Sonja.

***

Kyle treaded water as he watched in horror as his only chance of escape just disappeared. He was stuck in the past forever. Suddenly he felt very lonely. He wished he had taken someone—even his sister back with him. Then he thought about Sonja and remembered what happened in that future and shivered, but not because of the cold. In fact, he was surprised that the water was warm.

The mother dinosaur swam up to Kyle and whistled at him softly again. She moved sideways.

“You want me to crawl on again?”

She whistled again.

Kyle pulled himself up on her back and held on wondering where they were going now.

“I should give you a name. What should I call you?” He thought for a minute. Then he had an idea. “I’ll call you Nessie! You sort of look like the Loch Ness monster. Okay? Nessie?”

She whistled and began to swim after the other animals heading toward the center of the enormous underground lake. Then all the animals began to dive into the water. Kyle was afraid but quickly gulped several breaths of air before holding the last one, a trick he used when swimming underwater. If he was going to die, he decided, it would be following these creatures wherever they were going.

Down they went the water burning his eyes but he refused to shut them. The animal was extraordinarily swift and they were covering a great distance in a short period of time. It was getting darker and darker ahead. Seconds later, he couldn’t see anything at all.

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