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"No," Karla said, aly calm in spite of her unbounded excitement "They're dwarf mammoths"

"That can't be Mammoths are extinct"

"I know, but look closely" She pointed the flashlight at the ani shiny round eyes of an amber hue "Elephants don't have fur like that"

"This is i a hard ti himself

"Not entirely Traces of dwarf el Island as recently as 2000 BC That's only a blip in ti unbelievable The closest I've come to these creatures has been the fossilized bones of their ancestors"

Schroeder said, "Why don't they run away?"

Thewhen they were disturbed by the human intruders, but they weren't alarles, twosoroups, and showed little or no curiosity at the strangers

"They don't think we'll hurt them," Karla said "They've probably never seen huuess is that they ev

olved frorown animals thatin the ht and food through generations"

Schroeder gazed at the herd of pigmy mammoths and said, "Karla, how do they live?"

"There's an air supply Maybe it seeps down froh crevasses we don't know about Maybe they've learned to hibernate to preserve food"

"Yes, yes, but what do they eat?"

She glanced around "There et out into the open Wait! Maybe that's what happened to the so-called baby that the expedition found It was looking for food"

"We o," Schroeder said He made his way to the pyramid with Karla close behind The et out of the way and brushed against the huh piles of an to climb The effort put pressure on Schroeder's weak ankle, and he had to climb on his hands and knees, but he made it slowly to the flat top of the structure

The elevation offered a total view of the square The ani around with no rhyme nor reason to their movements