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She handed hilove, and her baseball "Sure Easy" She started to climb "But I bet Timmy can&039;t"
Tim spun in fury: "You shut up"
"Tihts"
"I aher "Are so"
"Aet me"
Grant turned to Ti "You okay with the fence, Tim?"
"Sure"
"Want some help?"
"Timmy&039;s a fraidy-cat," Lex called
"What a stupid jerk," Tim said, and he started to cli," Lex said They were standing waist-deep in smelly water at the bottom of a deep concrete moat They had climbed the fence without incident, except that Tim had torn his shirt on the coils of barbed wire at the top Then they had all slid down into thefor a way out
"At least I got Timmy over the fence for you," Lex said "He really is scared most times"
"Thanks for your help," Ti lu at the concrete wall on the far side The concrete was smooth; they couldn&039;t possibly climb it
"E," Lex said, pointing to the water
"It won&039;t hurt you, Lex"
Grant finally found a place where the concrete had cracked and a vine greard the water He tugged on the vine, and it held his weight "Let&039;s go, kids" They started to climb the vine, back to the field above
It took only a fewto the below-grade service road, and the ht They passed two motion sensors, and Grant noticed with so, nor were the lights More than two hours had passed since the power first went out, and it was not yet restored
Somewhere in the distance, they heard the tyrannosaur roar "Is he around here?" Lex said
"No," Grant said "We&039;re in another section of park frorassy e In the darkness it was forbidding, bunker-like
"What is this place?" Lex said
"It&039;s safe," Grant said, hoping that was true
The entrance gate was large enough to drive a truck through It was fitted with heavy bars Inside, they could see, the building was an open shed, with piles of grass and bales of bay stacked aate was locked with a heavy padlock As Grant was exa it, Lex slipped sideways between the bars "Couys"
Tim followed her "I think you can do it, Dr Grant"
He was right; it was a tight squeeze, but Grant was able to ease his body between the bars and get into the shed As soon as he was inside, a wave of exhaustion struck him
"I wonder if there&039;s anything to eat," Lex said
"Just hay" Grant broke open a bale, and spread it around on the concrete The hay in the center ar the warmth Lex curled up beside him, and closed her eyes Ti softly in the distance
Neither child spoke They were al Grant raised his arm to look at his watch, but it was too dark to see He felt the warainst his own body
Grant closed his eves, and slept
Control
Muldoon and Gennaro came into the control room just as Arnold clapped his bands and said, "Got you, you little son of a bitch"
"What is it?" Gennaro said,
Arnold pointed to the screen:
Vgl = GetHandl {datdt} te2 = GetHandl {datitl} tempCall {it2) set Li2) return
if Link(Vg2,Vgl) set Lil) return
on whte_rbtobj link set security (Vgl), peri2)
limitDat1 = maxbits (22) to {limit 04} set on
limitDat2 = setzero, setfive, 0 {limit 2-var(dzh)}
on finiobi call linksst {security, perimeter} set to on
on finiobi set linksst {security, perimeter} restore
on finiobi delete line rf whte_rbtobj, finiobj
Vgl = GetHandl {datdt} te2 = GetHandl {datitl} tempCall {itmtemp}
IimitDat4 = maxbits (33) to {limit 04} set on
limitDat5 = setzero, setfive, 0 {limit 2-var(szh)}
"That&039;s it," Arnold said, pleased
"That&039;s what?" Gennaro asked, staring at the screen
"I finally found the coinal code The command called &039;finiob&039; resets the linked parameters, namely the fence and the power
"Good," Muldoon said
"But it does so else," Arnold said "It then erases the code lines that refer to it It destroys all evidence it was ever there Pretty slick"
Gennaro shook his head "I don&039;t know h to knohat it h-tech co problems
"Well, watch this," Arnold said, and he typed in the command:
FINIOBJ
The screen flickered and i1 = GetHandl {datdt} te2 = GetHandl {datitl} tempCall {it2) set Li2) return
if Link(Vg2,Vgl) set Lil) return
limitDat1 = maxbits (22) to {limit 04} set on
limitDat2 = setzero, setfive, 0 {lil = GetHandl {datdt} te2 = GetHandl {datitl} tempCall {itmtemp}
IimitDat4 = maxbits (33) to {limit 04} set on
limitDat5 = setzero, setfive, 0 {limit 2-var(szh)}
Muldoon pointed to the s "Look!" Outside, the big quartz lights were cohout the park, They went to the s and looked out
"Hot damn," Arnold said,
Gennaro said, "Does this mean the electrified fences are back on?"
"You bet it does," Arnold said "It&039;ll take a few seconds to get up to full power, because we&039;ve got fifty e the capacitors along the way But in half a minute we&039;ll be back in business," Arnold pointed to the vertical glass see-through map of the park
On theout frohout the park, as electricity surged through the fences
"And the motion sensors?" Gennaro said
"Yes, them, too It&039;ll be a few &039;s working," Arnold said "Half past nine, and we&039;ve got the whole da"
Grant opened his eyes Brilliant blue light was streaate Quartz light: the poas back on! Groggily, he looked at his watch It was just nine-thirty He&039;d been asleep only a couple of minutes He decided he could sleep a few o back up to the field and stand in front of thethem off The control room would spot him; they&039;d send a car out to pick him and the kids up, he&039;d tell Arnold to recall the supply ship, and they&039;d all finish the night in their own beds back in the lodge
He would do that right away In just a couple of ain
"Not bad," Arnold said in the control roo map "There&039;s only three cutouts in the whole park Much better than I hoped for"
"Cutouts?" Gennaro said
"The fence automatically cuts out short-circuited sections," he explained "You can see a big one here, in sector twelve, near the main road"
"That&039;s where the rex knocked the fence down," Muldoon said
"Exactly And another one is here in sector eleven Near the sauropod "
"Why would that section be out?" Gennaro said
"God knows," Arnold said "Probably store or a fallen tree We can check It on the le river Don&039;t knohy that should be out, either"
As Gennaro looked, the reen spots and numbers "What&039;s all this?"
"The aniain, and the co to identify the location of all the animals in the park And anybody else, too"
Gennaro stared at the map "You mean Grant and the kids"
"Yes We&039;ve reset our search nu around," Arnold said, "the motion sensors will pick them up as additional animals" He stared at the map "But I don&039;t see any additionals yet"
"Why does it take so long?" Gennaro said
"You have to realize, Mr Gennaro," Arnold said, "that there&039;s a lot of extraneousaround, all kinds of stuff The coround movement It may take-ah Okay Count&039;s finished"
Gennaro said, "You don&039;t see the kids?"
Arnold twisted in his chair, and looked back to the map "No," he said, "at theout there has been accounted for as a dinosaur They&039;re probably up in a tree, or somewhere else where we can&039;t see them I wouldn&039;t worry yet Several ani rex That&039;s probably because it&039;s sleeping so, too We just don&039;t know"
Muldoon shook his head "We better get on with it," he said "We need to repair the fences, and get the ani to that coot five to herd back to the proper paddocks I&039;ll take the maintenance crews out now"
Arnold turned to Gennaro "Youthat Muldoon will need hi And I&039;ll notify Mr Ha our final cleanup"
Gennaro passed through the iron gates and went in the front door of the Safari Lodge He saw Ellie Sattler co water "There&039;s a kitchen at the other end," she said "We&039;re using that to boil water for the dressings"
"How is he?" Gennaro asked
"Surprisingly good," she said
Gennarro followed Ellie down to Malcolhter Theadjusting an IV line
"So the other man says, &039;I&039;ll tell you frankly, I didn&039;t like it, Bill I went back to toilet paper!&039;"
Harding was laughing
"It&039;s not bad, is it?" Malcol "Ah Mr Gennaro You&039;ve coet a leg up on the situation"
Gennaro came in, tentatively
Harding said, "He&039;s on fairly high doses of h enough, I can tell you," Malcols Did they find the others yet?"
"No, not yet," Gennaro said "But I&039; so well"
"How else should I be doing," Malcol that is likely septic and beginning to sent? But I always say, if you can&039;t keep a sense of humor"