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"Everything all right?"
"We&039;re fine, Dr Grant"
"Stay in the car"
"We will Don&039;t Worry" He clicked the radio off
Ed Regis snorted "It&039;s pouring down rain Of course we&039;ll stay in the car," he muttered
Tie at the side of the road Through the goggles, the foliage was a bright electronic green, and beyond he could see sections of the green grid pattern of the fence The Land Cruisers were stopped on the downslope of a hill, which must mean they were so to see a tyrannosaur with these night-vision goggles A real thrill Maybe the tyrannosaur would come to the fence and look over at thelow in the dark when he saw them That would be neat
But he didn&039;t see anything, and eventually he stopped looking Everyone in the cars fell silent The rain thrummed on the roof of the car Sheets of water streamed down over the sides of the s It was hard for Tiles
"How long have we been sitting here?" Malcolm asked
"I don&039;t know Four or five minutes"
"I wonder what the problem is"
"Maybe a short circuit from the rain"
"But it happened before the rain really started"
There was another silence In a tense voice, Lex said, "But there&039;s no lightning, right?" She had always been afraid of lightning, and she now sat nervously squeezing her leather mitt in her hands
Dr Grant said, "What was that? We didn&039;t quite read that"
"Just "
"Oh"
Ti Certainly nothing as big as a tyrannosaur He began to wonder if the tyrannosaurs caht Were they nocturnal animals? Tim wasn&039;t sure if he had ever read that He had the feeling that tyrannosaurs were all-weather, day or night animals The time of day didn&039;t matter to a tyrannosaur
The rain continued to pour
"Hell of a rain," Ed Regis said "It&039;s really co down"
Lex said, "I&039;ry"
"I know that, Lex," Regis said, "but we&039;re stuck here, sweetie The cars run on electricity in buried cables in the road"
"Stuck for how long?"
"Until they fix the electricity"
Listening to the sound of the rain, Ti sleepy He yawned, and turned to look at the palm trees on the left side of the road, and was startled by a sudden tbu back just in tilimpse of a dark shape as it swiftly crossed the road between the two cars
"Jesus! "
"What was it?"
"It was huge, it was big as the car-"
"Tim! Are you there?"
He picked up the radio "Yes, I&039;m here"
"Did you see it, Tim?"
"No," Tim said "I missed it"
"What the hell was it?" Malcol the night-vision goggles, Tim?"
"Yes I&039;ll watch," Tim said
"Was it the tyrannosaur?" Ed Regis asked
"I don&039;t think so It was in the road"
"But you didn&039;t see it?" Ed Regis said
"No "
Ti the animal whatever it was
There was a sudden white crack of lightning, and his night goggles flared bright green He blinked his eyes and started counting "One one thousandtwo one thousand"
The thunder crashed, deafeningly loud and very close Lex began to cry "Oh, no"
"Take it easy, honey," Ed Regis said "It&039;s just lightning"
Ti down bard now, shaking the leaves with ha seemed alive He scanned the leaves
He stopped There was so beyond the leaves
Tiher
Behind the foliage, beyond the fence, he saw a thick body with a pebbled, grainy surface like the bark of a tree But it wasn&039;t a tree He continued to look higher, sweeping the goggles upward-
He saw the huge head of the tyrannosaurus Just standing there, looking over the fence at the two Land Cruisers The lightning flashed again, and the big aniht Then darkness, and silence again, and the pounding rain
"Tim?"
"Yes, Dr Grant"
"You see what it is?"
"Yes, Dr Grant"
Ti to talk in a way that wouldn&039;t upset his sister
"What&039;s going on right now?"
"Nothing," Tiles "Just standing on the other side of the fence"
"I can&039;t see much from here, Tim"
"I can see fine, Dr Grant It&039;s just standing there"
"Okay"
Lex continued to cry, snuffling
There was another pause Tie! The aniain It seeht at Tiles, the eyes glowed bright green
Tim felt a chill, but then, as he looked down the ani down from the massive head and jaws, he saw the sripped the fence
"Jesus Christ," Ed Regis said, staring out the
The greatest preditor the world has ever known The most fearsome attack in human history Sois was still writing copy But he could feel his knees begin to shake uncontrollably, his trousers flapping like flags, Jesus, he was frightened He didn&039;t want to be here Alone ais knehat a dinosaur attack was like He knehat happened to people He had seen the led bodies that resulted from a raptor attack He could picture it in his reatest meat-eater that ever walked the earth!
Jesus
When the tyrannosaur roared it was terrifying, a screa warmth in his trousers He&039;d peed in his pants He was simultaneously e He couldn&039;t just stay here He had to do soainst the dash
"Jesus Christ," he said again
"Bad language," Lex said, wagging her finger at him
Ti his head away froles streaked laterally-in ti his head in the rain
"Hey," Lex said, "where are you going?"
Ed Regis just turned and ran in the opposite direction fro into the woods The door to the Land Cruiser hung open; the paneling was getting wet
"He left!" Lex said "Where did he go? He left us alone!"
"Shut the door," Tim said, but she had started to scream, "He left us! He left us!"
"Ti on?" It was Dr Grant, on the radio "Tim?"
Tim leaned forward and tried to shut the door From the back seat, he couldn&039;t reach the handle He looked back at the tyrannosaur as lightning flashed again, ainst the white-flaring sky
"Ti?"
"He left us, he left us!"
Tiain, the tyrannosaur was standing there, exactly as before, e Rain dripped froripped the fence
And then Ti on to the fence! The fence wasn&039;t electrified any more!
"Lex, close the door!"
The radio crackled "Tim!"
"I&039;m here, Dr Grant"
"What&039;s going on?"
"Regis ran away," Tim said
"He what?"
"He ran away I think he saw that the fence isn&039;t electrified," Tim said
"The fence isn&039;t electrified?" Malcolm said, over the radio "Did he say the fence isn&039;t electrified?"
"Lex," Ti, "He left us, he left us!" in a steady,for Ti rain, and shut the door for her Thunder ruain Ti down the cyclone fence with a giant hind limb
"Timmy!"
He jumped back in and slammed the door, the sound lost in the tbunderclap
The radio: "Tirabbed the radio "I&039;m here" He turned to Lex "Lock the doors Get in the middle of the car And shut up"
Outside, the tyrannosaur rolled its head and took an aard step forward The claws of its feet had caught in the grid of the flattened fence Lex saw the animal finally, and became silent, still She watched ide eyes
Radio crackle "Tim"
"Yes, Dr Grant"
"Stay in the car Stay down Be quiet Don&039;t move, and don&039;t make noise"
"Okay"
"You should be all right I don&039;t think it can open the car"
"Okay"
"Just stay quiet, so you don&039;t arouse its attention any more than necessary
"Okay" Tim clicked the radio off "You hear that, Lex?" His sister nodded, silently She never took her eyes off the dinosaur The tyrannosaur roared In the glare of lightning, they saw it pull free of the fence and take a bounding step forward
Noas standing between the two cars Tim couldn&039;t see Dr Grant&039;s car any e body blocked his view The rain ran in rivulets down the pebbled skin of the s He couldn&039;t see the anih above the roofline