The next day, Jenna haven't seen Owen at all. She had to go to the laboratory as soon as she left the Sea World to controll devices and freshly hatched youngs together with the team of Dr. Dearing, and it took a lot of time. The doctor was insisting that after such a great stress like emergency mode, a basic set of tests had to be done, and so she didn't move several hours from one place. She was also already planning to add the Mosasaurs response to emergency mode to her research, although she regretted a little that she couldn't evaluate their behavior in a storm, and her free time shortened even more.
All she managed was a brief conversation in the evening. Owen answered the first call and assured her that he picked up Ty and everything was all right in the cabin. She told him in return that she might stop tomorrow to check and then put the radio on the table among other stuff and wanted to go to sleep. Although she immediately wondered whether it's not too much after a single night and his vague statement, and whether it didn't seem as if she automatically claimed the continuing their relationship and the right to visits and keeping track of what he was doing. But she told herself that if he wasn't alright with that, he would said it.
And because he didn't say anything, she went to him the second day after lunch. But to her disappointment, she soon found that neither Owen nor Ty was in the cabin and the bike was also gone, so she turned and bit disappointed went back.
But she barely got sight on the sign prohibiting entry to tourists that hung near one protrusion of strangely demarcated raptor's paddock and she had to stop and got back to a good mood. A known bike rode against her and the only one who could sit on it was Owen. Who had to also get down because her jeep blocked the already narrow road.
"Where have you been? I already managed it to the cabin," she welcomed him.
"And what do I owe so courageous visit?"
Jenna took a breath, got out of the jeep and walked toward him. "I wanted to see you."
"Then you're lucky. I dropped Ty in the Center, there is some afternoon for children today, so I'm all yours."
"That's... you were once... and it was nice," she smiled at him and stepped away when he came to her.
"Although it's a fact that you have to share me with the raptors."
"I can handle it. But I must say that I never-"
"Hey watch out, THE FENCE!" Owen yelled and Jenna suddenly jerked in fright. And then jumped and bumped into him when she realized what she had done.
"I did... hell, I touched it, right?"
"You caught it, but..."
"I'm not dead," she said what they both immediately thought. She distractedly reached after the first thing she found in absolute perplexity that his flirting caused and that was the fence. But that, even though it had to be under a strong electricity and should kick her so hard that she would probably never wake up, did nothing.
"How? It doesn't work?" she still stared at it and didn't dare to move.
"Looks like that."
Owen bent down, broke off a branch from the nearest bush and threw it against the fence. Again, nothing happened. Then he came to it and slowly and carefully, as if he could feel the electricity from a distance, held out his hand.
"Don't do it!"
But he already caught one of the wires tightly in his hand.
"Fu-! Nothing. It's not working!"
"It's not working? Nowhere?" Jenna looked around wildly, as if she expected dinosaur attack.
"I don't know, call the Administration! And go into the jeep!" he commanded and unceremoniously hung up his bike into the bracket on a place of the spare tire. Then he jumped behind the driving-wheel,(Jenna didn't protest), and started up. Meanwhile, she clutched her radio in her trembling hands and frantically tried to call a competent person. Her first two attempts to tune the correct frequency failed. When she finally found it, she didn't take a notice who was announced and almost screamed.
"Broken electric fence in Velaciraptor's paddock! Fix it immediately!"
"I understand. We registered a total overload and failure of external electrical circuit. The technicians are already working on it, fences should jump in two minutes," Sorkin's voice said. He tried very hard to stay calm, but certain concerns seeped into him.
"Should? Failure? Damn, how could it be?! What about animals?!"
"Don't go out of the buildings, it failed now, we'll fix it, nothing should happen. Visitors don't know. Stay calm. I have to go."
"...stay calm. We are... the closest things here are raptors, they can easily pass through the fence, but we shall stay calm!" Jenna squeaked with a fair amount of hysteria.
Owen didn't answer, just kept going back to the cabin. He backed first until he found a suitable place to rollover, and then without a word stepped on the gas. That was his only sign that something was wrong. Otherwise, either he felt no fear or hid it masterfully.
"And you say nothing? What if they run away and eat us? What if Tyrannosaurus eats us? Or something else?!"
"Not many animals will come here. It's secluded and close to raptors territory, they'll let it be. And like you heard, within two minutes it will be turned on, they're not geniuses to immediately find out that they have the whole island available."
"You know they shouldn't find it out, but do they know it too?!"
"Hey, if we stay in the cabin, nothing happens. Even when there isn't electricity, there are still fences and smaller animals give up on them rather than to scramble through. And I still receive the signal from the cameras, so we can track raptors."
Jenna calmed down a little and started to think rationally again, so she was needled by something else.
"A chips... they should have chips, shouldn't they?"
"Yeah, but they're adults, so we don't repair them if they're damaged, I wouldn't rely on it."
"I hate you, Owen. Why can't you have a cabin near an Iguanodon? If something eats me, I'll come back to haunt you!"
