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"We&039;ll have to get him out of there," Arnold said
"With what?" Muldoon said "We haven&039;t got anything to use on a rex I&039;ll fix this fence, but I&039;ht"
"Hammond won&039;t like it"
"We&039;ll discuss it when I get back," Muldoon said
"Howaround the control room
"Probably just one," Harding said "Sauropods are big; the rex can feed off a single kill for several days"
"We have to go out and get hiht," Hammond said
Muldoon shook his head "I&039;ht"
Ha up and down on the balls of his feet, the way he did whenever he was angry "Are you forgetting you work for me?"
"No, Mr Harown adult tyrannosaur out there How do you plan to get him?"
"We have tranquilizer guns"
"We have tranquilizer guns that shoot a twenty-cc dart," Muldoon said "Fine for an anihs four or five hundred pounds That tyrannosaur weighs eight tons It wouldn&039;t even feel it"
"You ordered a larger weapon"
"I ordered three larger weapons, Mr Haot only one And it&039;s gone Nedry took it when he left"
"That was pretty stupid Who let that happen?"
"Nedry&039;s not my problem, Mr Hammond," Muldoon said
"You&039;re saying," Hammond said, "that, as of this moment, there is no way to stop the tyrannosaur?"
"That&039;s exactly what I&039;," Muldoon said
"That&039;s ridiculous," Hammond said
"It&039;s your park, Mr Hammond You didn&039;t want anybody to be able to injure your precious dinosaurs Well, now you&039;ve got a rex in with the sauropods, and there&039;s not a da you can do about it" He left the room
"Just aafter him Gennaro stared at the screens, and listened to the shouted arguuess you don&039;t have control of the park yet, after all"
"Don&039;t kid yourself," Arnold said, lighting another cigarette "We have the park It&039;ll be dawn in a couple of hours We et the rex out of there, but, believe me, we have the park"
Dawn
Grant akened by a loud grinding sound, followed by aHe opened his eyes and saw a bale of bay rolling past hi Twostopped as abruptly as it had begun, and the concrete building was silent again
Grant yawned He stretched sleepily, winced in pain, and sat up
Soft yellow light ca: he had slept the whole night! He looked quickly at his watch: 5:00 ao before the boat had to be recalled He rolled onto his back, groaning His head throbbed, and his body ached as if he had been beaten up Fro sound, like a rusty wheel And then Lex giggling
Grant stood slowly, and looked at the building Now that it was daylight, he could see it was so, with stacks of hay and supplies On the wall he saw a gray n: SAUROPOD MAINTENANCE BLDG (04) This ht He opened the box and saw a telephone, but when he lifted the receiver he heard only hissing static Apparently the phones weren&039;t working yet
"Chew your food," Lex was saying "Don&039;t be a piggy, Ralph"
Grant walked around the corner and found Lex by the bars, holding out handfuls of bay to an ani the squeaking sounds Grant had heard It was actually an infant triceratops, about the size of a pony The infant didn&039;t have horns on its head yet, just a curved bony frill behind big soft eyes It poked its snout through the bars toward Lex, its eyes watching her as she fed it more hay
"That&039;s better," Lex said "There&039;s plenty of hay, don&039;t worry" She patted the baby on the head "You like hay, don&039;t you, Ralph?"
Lex turned back and saw him
"This is Ralph," Lex said "He&039;s my friend He likes hay"
Grant took a step and stopped, wincing
"You look pretty bad," Lex said
"I feel pretty bad"
"Tim, too His nose is all swollen up"
"Where is Ti," she said "You want to help me feed Ralph?"
The baby triceratops looked at Grant Hay stuck out of both sides of itson the floor as it chewed
"He&039;s a very ry"
The baby finished chewing and licked its lips It opened itsfor more Grant could see the slender sharp teeth, and the beaky upper jaw, like a parrot
"Okay, just aup more straw from the concrete floor, "Honestly, Ralph," she said, "You&039;d think your mother never fed you"
"Why is his name Ralph?"
"Because he looks like Ralph At school"
Grant caently
"It&039;s okay, you can pet him," Lex said "He likes it when you pet him, don&039;t you, Ralph?"
The skin felt dry and warave a little squeak as Grant petted it Outside the bars, its thick tail swung back and forth with pleasure
"He&039;s pretty tame" Ralph looked fron of fear It reminded Grant that the dinosaurs didn&039;t have ordinary responses to people "Maybe I can ride him," Lex said
"Let&039;s not"
"I bet he&039;d let me," Lex said "It&039;d be fun to ride a dinosaur"
Grant looked out the bars past the anirowing lighter every ht, and set off one of the ht take the people in the control rooet out here to him And he didn&039;t like the idea that the phones were still down
He heard a deep snorting sound, like the snort of a very large horse, and suddenly the baby becah the bars, but got caught on the edge of its frill, and it squeaked in fright
Tle snorting caain It was closer this time
Ralph reared up on its hind legs, frantic to get out froled its head back and forth, rubbing against the bars
"Ralph, take it easy," Lex said
"Push him out," Grant said He reached up to Ralph&039;s head and leaned against it, pushing the animal sideways and backward The frill popped free and the baby fell outside the bars, losing its balance and flopping on its side Then the baby was covered in shadow, and a huge leg came into view, thicker than a tree trunk The foot had five curved toenails, like an elephant&039;s
Ralph looked up and squeaked A head ca white horns, one above each of the large brown eyes and a srown triceratops The big ani slowly, and then turned its attention to Ralph A tongue caainst the big leg happily
"Is that his mom?" Lex said
"Looks like it," Grant said
"Should we feed the mom, too?" Lex said
But the big triceratops was already nudging Ralph with her snout, pushing the baby away from the bars
"Guess not"
The infant turned away froit away, as they both walked out into the fields
"Goodbye, Ralph," Lex said, waving Ti
"Tell you what," Grant said "I&039; up on the hill to set off the et us You two stay here and wait for me"
"No," Lex said
"Why? Stay here It&039;s safe here"
"You&039;re not leaving us," she said "Right, Tiht," Tim said
"Okay," Grant said
They crawled through the bars, stepping outside
It was just before dawn
The air ar low to the ground Some distance away, they saw theaway toward a herd of large duckbilled hadrosaurs, eating foliage frooon
Some of the hadrosaurs stood knee-deep in the water They drank, lowering their flat heads,their own reflections in the still water Then they looked up again, their heads swiveling At the water&039;s edge, one of the babies ventured out, squeaked, and scraently
Farther South, other hadrosaurs were eating the lower vegetation So their forelegs on the tree trunks, so they could reach the leaves on higher branches And in the far distance, a giant apatosaur stood above the trees, the tiny head swiveling on the long neck The scene was so peaceful Grant found it bard to ier
"Yew!" Lex shouted, ducking Two giant red dragonflies with six-foot wingspans bummed past theonflies," he said "The Jurassic was a tie insects"
"Do they bite?" Lex said
"I don&039;t think so," Grant said
Tihted on it He could feel the weight of the huge insect
"He&039;s going to bite you," Lex warned
But the dragonfly just slowly flapped its red-veined transparent wings, and then, when Tiain,
"Which way do we go?" Lex said
"There"
They started walking across the field They reached a black box mounted on a heavy metal tripod, the first of the motion sensors Grant stopped and waved his band in front of it back and forth, but nothing happened If the phones didn&039;t work, perhaps the sensors didn&039;t work, either "We&039;ll try another one," he said, pointing across the field Soe animal
"Ah hell," Arnold said "I just can&039;t find it" He sipped coffee and stared bleary-eyed at the screens He had taken all the videothe co for twelve straight hours He turned to Wu, who had come up from the lab
"Find what?"
"The phones are still out I can&039;t get the to the phones"
Wu lifted one phone, heard hissing "Sounds like a modem"
"But it&039;s not," Arnold said "Because I went down into the base is just white noise that sounds like a "
"So the phone lines are jammed?"
"Basically, yes Nedry jammed them very well He&039;s inserted soraave that restore cos But apparently the command to shut off the phones is still resident in the coed "So? Just reset: shut the system down and you&039;ll clear memory
"I&039;ve never done it before," Arnold said "And I&039;m reluctant to do it Maybe all the systems will come back on start-up-but maybe they won&039;t I&039;m not a computer expert, and neither are you Not really And without an open phone line, we can&039;t talk to anybody who is"
"If the command is RAM-resident, it won&039;t show up in the code You can do a RAM dump and search that, but you don&039;t knohat you&039;re searching for I think all you can do is reset"
Gennaro stormed in "We still don&039;t have any telephones"
"Working on it"
"You&039;ve been working on it since ht And Malcolm is worse He needs medical attention"
"It means I&039;ll have to shut down," Arnold said "I can&039;t be sure everything will come back on"
Gennaro said, "Look There&039;s a sick e He needs a doctor or he&039;ll die You can&039;t call for a doctor unless you have a phone Four people have probably died already Now, shut down and get the phones working!"