LAND BEFORE TIME
The Dinosaur Named Thorn
Disclaimer: I do not own the original story line of ''LAND BEFORE TIME'' or its original characters
Chapter 1 Reincarnation Can Be Disconcerting
Imagine a world very different before the time of man, even before the time of the first mammals.
Millions of years ago our planet was filled with prehistoric plants, insects, bugs and animals which splendor went far beyond our imagination.
Some of the plants we never will know of, and there may have been wildlife that we will never discover in our lifetime.
But what we do know is that millions of years ago our planet was ruled by the mighty beasts that ruled the land from generations to generations.
The mighty animals were what we humans came to call Dinosaurs after Sir Richard Owen came up with the word in the year 1841.
Yeah, I became a book-worm due to certain circumstances, so sue me!
Some were absolutely massive in size and some of the dinosaurs turned out to be the height and weight of kittens.
These ancient beasts came in three different kinds. Plant eaters that ate only vegetation substances while omnivores ate their fill upon berries, meat and plants.
Then there were the dreaded carnivores that hunted solely for the herbivores and omnivores for food sustenance.
But what was still debated on, and worked on, was what sort of texture of skin these beasts had and if they came in different colors.
This was fact. And I could understand it.
But what I never would have believed in was reincarnation.
So as you know reincarnation is one of the religious or philosophical concepts that the soul, or spirit, begins a new life in a new body after it's biological body experiences death.
Do you believe in it?
I certainly wasn't expecting it to happen to me upon my death-bed after suffering through three years of body- killing cancer.
Even more, I would never have believed that it would be in an entirely different world and that I'd become a creature I'd believed I'd never witness walking with my own eyes.
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But even that knowledge came to me much later.
All I knew of in the beginning, upon having woken up, was that I'd somehow been cooped up into a very small space with no light and very little room.
At first I'd believed it to have been a coffin, but soon realized it couldn't have been one. It certainly didn't feel like a wooden coffin.
Needless to say I felt very confused, lonely and frightened.
Where was I exactly? Good question, because the only thing I could think of as to where I'd ended up was inside an egg. But what kind, and what exactly was I doing inside one in the first place? What in the world had I been reborn into exactly and who were my caretakers? Again a good question but I really couldn't see anything with my eyes.
I breathed in and out, in and out and would repeat it several more times in my life as an egg.
What I did know for certain that in mind and soul I was still Ronja Elisa Katariina Niemi; a human citizen of Finland and that I'd died from an internal illness.
But beyond that I hadn't the foggiest!
I wanted to scream in frustration for not having any answer but all that came out was a loud squeak. A squeak? I decided to move my back legs a little and found myself moving an extra appendix that felt like a tail.
A tail?
What exactly had I become?
I cried out again, louder this time, and was answered by a soothing voice talking to me from somewhere outside my tiny space. I also felt the 'someone' gently nudge the side of my egg.
'' Calm down my little one. Little one, its not your time to come out yet.'' the soothing voice told me.
'' So its not my time to hatch yet? How long must I wait, then? And how do I know I'm ready to hatch?'' I thought to myself nervously.
I uttered a despondent squeak and shivered with nerves as I settled down in the little space I had and closed my eyes tight against the already surrounding darkness around me.
All I could do was wait! And wait... and wait some more.
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END OF CHAPTER 1