"I think that there are many more than one hundred" Dreyfus said with a tone halfway between mocking and worried. His old face was crisscrossed with tension lines and even through his thick glasses Malcolm could see the concern in his eyes. It was rare that Dreyfus was so anxious, but after all in this situation it was more than justifiable.Malcolm stared at the dinosaur pack. They were motionless in their positions, there in front of the walls, and all of them had not very reassuring expressions on their faces (or snouts?). At a guess, there must have been at least two thousand. There were of all kinds, herbivores and carnivores. And before them, kneeling in plain sight, were the thousands of workers who worked in the various mines, sawmills, factories, oil wells and so on scattered throughout the colony. "Did they catch them?" he whispered.Dreyfus nodded. "It is clear that they want to make some kind of demonstration. I don't know if they want to kill them in front of us, but the w

Three days. It had only been three days since Abe had left to investigate, and the world around Jocelyne seemed to be collapsing every second more.First, that strange feeling that there was a storm coming had haunted her, preventing her from sleeping. And now she, in spite of herself, knew that feeling was more than justified. She didn't know how she had sensed the incoming disaster, perhaps the time spent alone in the forest had awakened in her some sort of primal instinct that allowed her to perceive the dangers, but still she would have much preferred to discover that she was wrong.After that fateful night, Abe had called her. Actually, he had called Jackson, but of course he had later informed her as well. And so she had received proof of her theories. Dinosaurs were getting intelligent, no, even worse: they were now sentient.Not only they were getting sentient, they were building a civilization. Dozens of different species collaborated, and by the time they painted their faces

"No explosion" Malcolm muttered. “And not even communications from Kemp. Something must have happened"Dreyfus just nodded as he continued to massage his hands. The old mayor knew something must have gone wrong.According to the plan, the soldiers were to blow up the quarry with the dinosaurs inside and bury them under thirty-five meters of rock. A simple, quick and clean work. However, no explosion had yet occurred despite the troops had been gone for a few hours. The quarry wasn't too far away, so the bang should have been heard in the city. But no sound had violated the peace of the night, and Kemp's radio silence didn't help to decrease Dreyfus’s anxiety.“I will issue an evacuation order. We'll take refuge in the sewers” the mayor said, raising his head. "They are underground and many of the vents are narrow. They are made of reinforced concrete and protected by several meters of earth and rock, so they won't be able to break through. The dinosaurs will probably chase us, but the

As Sobek had predicted, his 'stunt' didn't go unnoticed. The internet was a powerful means of communication and allowed people to talk to each other even while they were on opposite sides of the planet. Before the sun had even risen, hundreds and hundreds of videos had appeared throughout Odaria showing a mass assault of talking dinosaurs.And not only in Odaria: in fact, in Cartago there were also people from other parts of the world. Numerous foreign businessmen and investors were in the area at the time of the attack, and their Internet was not bound by Odaria's restrictions.Of course, very few people believed the images they saw. The vast majority were convinced that they were fake videos. The Odaria government did not hesitate to use that excuse to deflect suspicion.The nation's leading heads of state feared in the enormous economic consequences that would follow the discovery of intelligent dinosaurs. So, to avoid the scandal, they passed off the videos as a misunderstanding: a

Abe hadn't slept for even a second that night. He was used to sleeping in the worst places and on the hardest surfaces, but he couldn't relax with all the anxiety he had. His survival instinct, hardened to the max by his soldier training, kept his senses alert to detect even the slightest threat. Despite having spent a sleepless night, however, he didn't feel the slightest tiredness; probably all the adrenaline he had in his body was charging him as if it were a battery.He wondered how Jackson would react knowing what had happened. He hoped he didn't go crazy and do something extremely stupid. In his mind, his friend and brother bravely (and very foolishly) rushed to Cartago to save him, challenging hundreds of dinosaurs alone. Abe tried to convince himself that this would never happen, but in his heart he knew that was something Jackson would do.Abe unfortunately had no way to contact him and tell him to not do anything that could kill him. He couldn't even let him know that he was