After her birth at the Norman Atherton Laboratories and a time spent in observation in a room that had been reserved for her and her sister (and where she killed her), the Indominus had been transferred to the quarantine paddocks in order to acclimatize her to the outdoor conditions while waiting for her then under construction enclosure next to the Coliseum to be functional.
In the first days, she had acted with great shyness and distrust towards her environment, as she was often frightened during her first encounters with the jungle creatures that had managed to crawl under the fence, such as arthropods, lizards or small mammals, or those that landed in it or were perched in the trees like flying insects or birds.
More than once, she had retreated in her holding cage whenever it was possible as the outside scared her, and this was without mentioning the hoarse calls or the troubling hissings that she heard sometimes, especially at night, close and seeming to answer each other.
However, she gradually had got used to the jungle and its inhabitants and quickly realized that most were harmless and that there were even some that were easy prey.
Once she had felt confident enough, she had strode across her enclosure in its entirety, following the fence.
She thus saw her neighbours for the first time in the adjoining enclosures.
The fence of her paddock being separated from theirs by a simple strip of grass about two meters wide, she could see them entirely and vice-versa.
On one side, opposite of her holding building, there were the proceratosaurs, captured during the Saurian Wars and living there since more than a decade, and on the other side, one of the neoraptors pack, the one of hybrid females of which Andromeda had been the leader before her death, and whose holding cage was in the same building as the one of the Indominus.
The welcome they gave her hadn't been of the warmest: Whereas the neoraptors simply ignored her, the proceratosaurs had hissed at her vehementely when she had pressed herself against her fence to look at them, making her swiftly step back.
As for the humans, who had watched her closely until then, their visits became increasingly rare once they noticed that she had no health problems and the only times where they were brought to be near her were during feedings, leading her to associate them with food.
The young creature hadn't dwelled on that failure however.
On one hand, she had felt a void in her, due to the lack of social interaction she needed and in this world, neoraptors and proceratosaurs were what looked the most like her.
She had begun to nurture a strong curiosity for them, pushing her every day to observe them lengthily during the next three months, to analyse the relations between the individuals and the reactions they had to each sound emitted and each posture adopted by their congeners in order to understand the codes that ruled the functioning of the packs.
During this phase, she also discovered after several attempts that she was able to mimic the sounds of other animals.
She had begun with birds and frogs calls, before getting to grips with those of neoraptors and proceratosaurs.
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Once she had understood their meaning and was able to imitate them, she came closer to the neoraptor paddock while they stood just behind their fence and made their greeting call.
Having turned to her immediately, they had looked at her with great surprise, disturbed by the fact that this little white creature not like them had tried to communicate with them in their own language and was standing in front of them while adopting the posture of submission.
They made small rumblings to which she responded appropriately and a short discussion took place.
They did not accepted her right away however and the behaviour they had adopted was the same they would have adopted against a stranger individual of their own species: If she wanted to join the pack, she had to prove her worth.
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The next day, during a feeding, she tried to tear off the arm of one of the keepers.
As he screamed in pain and that others ran to the wounded man, the dinosaurs in the surrounding paddocks, disturbed by this racket, had stopped their activities and moved closer to the edge of their paddocks to observe the humans and, for those in the paddocks that were adjoining the one of the Indominus, look at her when she went outside, with the blood of the wounded dripping from her maw.
She had succeeded where they had failed, as the only person that had been seriously injured by a dinosaur since the opening of Jurassic World was Owen Grady, attacked by Andromeda before the eyes of the other neoraptors, permanently sapping any authority he could have on them.
Once the keepers had left to take their colleague to the hospital, the Indominus had returned pressing herself against the fence next to the neoraptor paddock and Medea, the individual that led the group since Andromeda's death, did the same after looking at her for a moment, judging her.
Without the fences that separated them, she would have approached the Indominus and rubbed her snout against hers, formally welcoming her in the pack.
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As a result, they showed a disposition to spend time with her and in the following months, she strengthened her ties with the neoraptors, learning more of their vocalizations and beginning to communicate with the other packs while men were sleeping or staying inside their buildings. Like if they knew that the discovery of this relationship would trouble the latter so much that they would highly risk to separate her from her "family", discretion was required and whenever they were nearby, the neoraptors and the Indominus pretended to ignore each other.
She learned from Medea and her sisters how to make the infrasound that allowed neoraptors to communicate with each other unbeknown to men and which could travel over great distances, as recent observations in feral packs on Isla Sorna reported a range of half a dozen of kilometres.
During the same period, she managed to establish contact with the proceratosaurs, then forced to listen to her since not only did she had become as large as them, but she also kept growing, and at a fast rate moreover.
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When she was picked up to be transferred to her Coliseum paddock at her eighth month, she was over six and a half meters long and one meter eighty-eight high at shoulder-level.
While the transport container in which she had reluctantly entered was loaded on a truck, the neoraptors had lined up near their fence and powerless, they had watched the vehicle head north.
The next night, they perceived infrasound let out by the Indominus from the Coliseum, kilometres away from the paddocks, and from time to time for a while, she communicated with the neoraptors' packs in this manner until she stopped, realizing that she was never going to see them again and during her escape, they hadn't been her main concern.
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But when she had seen the quarantine paddocks as she climbed towards the Haunted Mountain, she had remembered them and because of the eruption, she wasn't able to bring herself to go south while leaving them to a grim fate...
When she had released them, the packs had at first acted with great caution with her, as they were very intimidated by the giant monster that had killed their wardens, before remembering its scent and realizing that it was their former neighbour.
Aware that humans were going to show up at any moment, the neoraptors and proceratosaurs knew that they better take their chance and had therefore followed her to her new lair in the mountain.
