Grant stood in his tent. He held the cell phone shut unsure if he made the right decision. He thought he should have asked his team about it, he should have asked Ellie about it in particular. Ellie Sattler was still involved with Alan's dig team but mostly in prehistoric plant life. Grant ultimately decided to talk to Sattler about it. He left the tent and found her quite fast.
She was with the first Albertosaur they found, this one was the largest of the two by about five feet in length. The other was about thirty feet South and the Packyrhinosaur was in between at about fifteen feet south-east and was some what small for a Pachyrihnosaur at nineteen feet long making the smaller of the Albertosaurs, who was twenty-two, larger than it which supported a possible attack on the herbivore especially since the other animal was likely present too. They were unsure at this point how these two died but it may have something to do with getting stuck in mud or other natural killers… the Pachyrihnosaur also could have died from this too but it's unlikely for the distance placed between t and the carnivores.
"hello Alan, who was that on the phone?" she asked, she was helping dust off the back vertebrae. At this point all that could be seen was the left side of the vertebrae, from head to toe, and the upper jaw with a few teeth exposed. The animal appeared to have somehow died in a slanted position, supporting the natural killer theory.
"It was a man named Dr. Richard Levine," he answered, Grant started to tap his finger together unsure how to take it further.
"Dr. Richard Levine, I think I've heard of him. He's the rich paleontologist from Berkley isn't he?" Ellie stood up and continued, "Did he offer you funding or a research team or something?"
"Not exactly, he said something else."
"Like what?"
"He asked me about Isle Sorna and Nubular."
"He asked you about what?" she asked, Ellie never wanted to go any where near those islands again let alone talk about them.
"He asked me to go with him on an expedition…"
"You said what after that?"
"I said I would meet with him and we would talk about it," Grant began to bite his lip.
"I thought you never wanted to go back there again!" Sattler said irritably, "Why would you agree to this?"
"I agreed to it because we need the funding, we need the endorsement and Levine could easily get that if we please him… I don't like the idea but our options are slim."
"I guess but what exactly does he want you to do?"
"I don't know for sure, he said he'll come up here in three weeks, right at the end of our time here."
"Wait he's coming here… does that mean…?"
"Yes I agreed that we would all talk to him about it."
Sattler began to walk off toward the tent, "Fine, we will talk to him but don't think there's much of a chance of it happening… Alan we have made through that place once and that should be enough." Sattler left and Grant stood there, he simply couldn't agree more but he thought, what other options do we have?
Grant had been on the phone with an executive of Royal Tyrrell Museum, Alberta, Canada. He had been hopping to interest them with the large Albertosaur they found, since its actual measurement was ten meters in length, making it one of the largest ever found and larger than Grant had originally estimated. He also offered the other two animals found but spent more time talking about the larger of them. Eventually he managed to get them to agree to send an executive to come and take a look at it.
Sattler was more than disapproval to Levine's plans and intentions and for good reason too. Basically she had already decided the answer was no, Grant however was not convinced quite so quickly.
He didn't like the idea of getting involved with Jurassic Park again either but Levine could offer everything they needed. The executive had agreed to meet Grant in three weeks, the same time Levine would arrive. He had hoped to get the executive interested in Levines meeting too, maybe. Sattler told the crew about the meeting so Alan could spend more time with the executives.
