At the end of their crossing of the Cartago Valley, the Indominus and the Pack reached the summit of a ridge from which they saw an island of lights amidst an ocean of darkness: Burroughs.
The city was close, about a mile away, and the only obstacle they had still to cross was the Rio Iris but the dinosaurs soon noticed that the river was patrolled.
Indeed, once they came back in Sector One, the guards had deployed rigid-hulled inflatable boats and those were coming and going on the river.
Instead of continuing, moving down the ridge and attempting to swim across the river and taking the risk of being spotted by the men, the Indominus stopped the Pack on the ridge, according to its members and herself some rest.
Choosing a comfortable place, she laid down and watched the valley and its surroundings.
Among the buildings occupying it, she recognized one, that stood above the others in the northern part of the city: The Mountain of the Gods, where she was born.
It seemed to be much smaller than in her memories and paled in comparison to the others on the island, especially the mountain of fire, huge and terrible.
By following first the Rio Iris course with her eyes toward its mouth and the East Docks, she saw the ocean for the first time.
For this flat and dark expanse, that seemed to extend endlessly, she simultaneously felt curiosity and apprehension, not unlike humans looking at space.
Did this expanse had an end? If yes, what lied beyond?
At the end of the peninsula that jutted out into the ocean, she saw a rather large luminous ball, at the summit of a tower, looking like a lidless burning eye that sometimes scanned the surface of the water.
This sinister eye often illuminated the waters near entities that the Indominus first thought to be huge leviathans with countless bright eyes, before realizing that said eyes closely resembled to the lights of the building near which they floated and the others in the valley.
She noticed that the lights were concentrated in certain places that were the Administration, the Grand Nublarian, the Cascades Hotel and the Lost Valley Palace, at the very back of the valley. They were the most numerous at the latter's level and consequently, a large number of humans had to be grouped there, far from the areas patrolled between the city and their position...
She then watched those patiently, stopping her eyes at each movement she perceived, whether it was those of vehicles and men on foot moving in the northern districts, the botanical gardens, the zoo, or the inflatable boats that came and go along the river, all of this in order to detect any form of pattern.
If she could find a moment when the patrols were the least vigilant, they could take advantage of it to take action.
