Karl was in the Hatchery kitchen. He had a bowl sitting on the counter in which he was throwing bits of different things into. 26 was watching him impatiently. Ever since 26 could tell the difference Karl was the only one who could cook for her. If anyone else made it, she wouldn't eat it. It's not that he always made a certain thing, he usually just threw together whatever there was. But if it came from him, 26 loved it. He was humming and signing a song from his favorite band. It was a song he'd never hear again but he still liked it. He began to stir the contents of the bowl when he looked over to the doorway into the kitchen. He stopped singing and scratched the back of his head embarrassed. Marion was standing in the doorway watching him; she had a smile on her face.

"I was just a, a…" Karl said not coming up with anything. Marion walked over to him.

"I know what you were doing," she said still smiling at him. He laughed nervously.

"26 was hungry so I thought I'd make her something," he said and they both looked down t 26 who was looking at the bowl eagerly. Karl laughed again and he stirred the bowl's contents a bit more before setting the bowl in front of her. 26 quickly rammed her face into the bowl and pushed it all the way to the cupboard as she ate out of it. Karl and Marion laughed a little.

"Like I said, she was hungry."

"So I see," Marion said watching 26 and laughing.

"Some um, what can I do for you?" Karl asked Marion leaning over onto the counter.

"I need to talk to you…" Marion told him seriously.

"What are you doing up there!" David yelled up. Amelia was sitting on the roof of the Hatchery all by herself. There was a ladder below her revealing the way she got up there. She turned from the ocean to look at him.

"Admiring the scenery!" she answered. He laughed a little and looked over the water too.

"Can I join you!" he asked her. She thought about it for a little.

"I suppose so!" she finally answered. David jogged over to the ladder and climbed up it. He carefully made his way up the roof and sat down next to her. The wind on top of the roof was stronger then that on the land but the view of the ocean was better.

"This is great," he said having to raise his voice only a bit to be heard over the roar of the wind.

"I used to spend a good part of my day up here," she told him.

"With all of the things to do here, you spent your time on a roof?" he asked her surprised. She turned to him and nodded before looking back at the ocean.

"Sometimes when I look just out to the water, and I don't see anything else, and when the wind is really blowing… I feel like I'm flying," she explained.

"Why didn't you become a Skybax rider?" he asked her.

"Not of the air. Not of the water," she told him.

"How old were you when you were given a habitat?" he asked her, thinking about how old Earhart was.

"I wasn't given a habitat. My habitat was decided."

"What does that mean?" he asked her, now curious.

"One morning when I was three, I woke up to find a Stenonychosaurus had placed her egg in my care. She reached in through the window and placed the egg under my arm with a note," she told him.

"What did the note say?"

" "For you." It was in foot print."

"That's really weird!"

"Yea! The Matriarch said that my habitat had been decided then."

"So you had to raise a dinosaur at three?"

"No, my mother raised him. Earhart is like a brother to me. We grew up together."

"You and Earhart are probably closer than Karl and I," David said with a laugh.

"We're a lot closer then you'd think," Amelia said with a laugh and David looked at her oddly. She looked back at him realizing he might like an explanation for it.

"You mean the scales, don't you?" he asked to her surprise.

"So Karl squealed?" she asked him frowning and looked back at the ocean.

"Earhart told me," David said and Amelia quickly turned to him in shock.

"Earhart!" she said surprised. David nodded.

"He figured since every once else knew, I should too," David explained. Amelia sighed and turned back to the ocean. The two of them were quiet for a bit. Then Amelia turned back to him.

"Do you hear that?" she asked him right before the roof gave way under them and they both fell down into a conveniently placed pile of straw.

Marion and Karl ran out of the kitchen and into the room filled with the piles of straw. When they saw what happened Karl laughed a little but Marion didn't so Karl stopped. Samantha and the Matriarch arrived behind them, and Earhart behind them.

"Oh what happened?" Earhart asked as Amelia and David realized what happened and started to laugh. Karl and Marion took a few steps into the pile and helped them to their feet. Everyone looked up at the hole in the ceiling.

"Hey that's the longest lasting roof yet," Amelia said laughing as she stepped off on to the stone floor of the rest of the Hatchery.

"You mean you've fallen through there before?" Karl asked her. She nodded smiling.

"She fell through it four times one summer," Marion told him. David laughed.

"Three and a half. I got stuck half way that one time," she corrected Marion.

"Don't you get mad at her over that?" Karl asked the Matriarch.

"She always fixes it," the Matriarch told him.

"Amelia is good at fixing things," Samantha added.

"I've had enough practice," Amelia said.

"Haven't you ever gotten hurt?" David asked her.

"A few times."

"Earhart got hurt once," Marion said and Earhart sighed.

"That was his own fault! I told him to stay down there but he didn't listen to me," Amelia said and Earhart sighed again.

"I thought you said "come up." "

"Oh when can "stay there" sound like "come up?" " Amelia asked him and the two began to fight. The Matriarch placed a hand on each of their shoulders and they calmed down.

"I believe there's a hole to be fixed," she reminded them. Amelia nodded and headed off to go get some tools.

"I'll help you!" David said jogging after her. Karl headed off to clean up after 26 so Marion joined him.

The bowl was empty and 26 sleeping in the corner. Karl laughed slightly and picked up the bowl and began to wash it. Marion smiled at 26.

"She does love you," Marion told Karl. Karl agreed and smiled.

"She seems to like Amelia too, oddly so…" Karl said. Marion sighed and walked up next to him.

"Yes, that's what I want to talk to you about…" Marion started and Karl looked at her curiously.

"About Amelia? This isn't going to go well," he said.

"I remember where I've seen that symbol before…" she admitted.

"Yea uh, her neck," Karl said pointing to the back of his neck. Marion looked at him surprised.

"Um, did I forget to tell you I saw the symbol on the back of Amelia's neck?" Karl asked her and Marion nodded. She sighed.

"Karl does this mean everything Amelia has told me has been a lie?" Marion asked her.

"No, no Marion. She wasn't lying to you… She don't know who she was until we…" he started but remembered he promised to keep that a secret. But Marion right now was looking at him in that wonderful curious way he loved. He sighed and told her everything. Including the ping pong game and the, uh, mating thing. By the end of it she was some what confused but hid it well.

"So Amelia is a god?" Marion asked him. Karl nodded.

"So was Mary," Karl said. Marion sighed and sat down.

"Why didn't she tell me?" Marion asked.

"She doesn't believe it herself," Karl said walking over and sitting down next to her.

"But even with the mark and the scales and the story?" Marion asked him. Karl shrugged.

"You know her better than I do Marion," Karl told her. Marion looked down at the floor.

"My poor friend," she said more to herself than to Karl. He looked at her surprised.

" "Poor?" She's a god!" Karl told her.

"You don't understand… Amelia has lived all of her life feeling different from everyone else but her sister. Now with her sister gone she's felt so alone. And she is alone. She's the only one of her kind, Karl…" Marion explained. Karl sighed, stood up, and paced back and forth for a few moments.

"She's not alone as long as she has her friends and family," he told Marion and she smiled up at him.