Karl awoke the next morning to find 26 gone again. David's blankets or pillows weren't on his bed but that didn't surprise Karl any. He shot out of his bed and ran to the window. From his window he had a clear view of the Hatchery garden. He hoped 26 didn't feel like another midnight mud bowl. She was in the garden though. She was carrying a basket in her mouth over to Amelia who was kneeling in the dirt with a trowel. Amelia took the basket from 26's mouth and Karl could hear her thank the dinosaur.

"Hey!" Karl yelled down to them. Amelia looked up but 26 just nudged her in the shoulder playfully. Amelia laughed, still looking up at Karl.

"Yes?" she yelled up.

"What are you doing?" he asked her.

"We're replanting the garden, of course!"

"What's 26 doing?"

"She's helping!" Amelia responded. Karl thought about that for awhile. First 26 destroys the garden, and now she was helping to fix it.

"Why didn't anyone tell me?" he asked Amelia and 26 nudged her in the shoulder again with her nose. Amelia patted her snout a little.

"She didn't want to wake you!" Amelia responded causing Karl to think a little more. He was the only one who really understood 26. He understood her better than Marion and the Matriarch even did.

"Why didn't you tell me?" he asked her. She laughed a little and smiled, he eyes slightly squinted due to the morning sun.

"She didn't want me to wake you either!" Amelia responded and 26 nudged her so powerfully that Amelia fell over and began to laugh. Karl smiled and nodded his head as he turned back into his room.

Marion carried out a basket of plantlings to the garden. She gave some to Amelia and kneeled down to plant some of them herself. 26 trotted over to her and nudged her in the arm too. Marion smiled and patted 26 on the head.

"Don't you even think about eating these," Marion told her still smiling. 26 honked softly. Marion laughed.

"Oh I don't think she'll try that again. She ate the centers of the plapes," Amelia said holding up some plant. Marion laughed as she looked at 26.

"She regrets that," Marion said.

"She also regrets knocking Karl and I over," Amelia said tossing the plapes into a nearby basket. Marion turned to Amelia as 26 trotted out of the garden, probably realizing Karl had just come downstairs even though she couldn't see him.

"You're understanding them more, aren't you?" Marion asked her. Amelia looked up from the dirt to her friend, and then back at the dirt.

"No more than usual…" Amelia responded. Marion frowned slightly.

"These things we've learned…"

"These myths we've heard…" Amelia corrected her. Marion remained frowning.

"These things we've learned, about your father. It explains a lot," Marion said beginning to replant things too.

"It explains nothing…"

"It does, Amelia, and you know it. It explains that symbol you and Mary have. It explains why your father left-"

"He died," Amelia again corrected her. This time Marion just ignored her.

"It also explains Earhart," Marion said and Amelia looked up at her in surprise. Marion turned to her too.

"What about Earhart?" Amelia asked urgently.

"It explains why you were chosen by his mother. Dinosaurs have also acted different around you than most people."

"They act differently around you as well…" Amelia pointed out.

"Yes but my family has been here for many, many generations. Your grandmother was an Outlander."

"My father was Dinotopian."

"He was a god, Amelia," Marion told her and Amelia fell silent.

"He was a father, that's all that matters…" Amelia said looking back to the dirt. Marion remained silent and tended the garden as well.

Karl had been joined by 26 the moment his foot left the last step. He walked into the kitchen humming and she followed him as usual. Karl was a bit surprised to see Earhart in the kitchen cooking something.

"I heard you yelling, I figured you might like some breakfast. The rest of us got up two hours ago…" Earhart said in a scolding manner. Karl just smiled and thanked him as he sat down at the table. Earhart placed what he was cooking on a plate and placed it in front of Karl along with a fork and spoon.

"Where's David?" Karl asked merely out of curiosity.

"He and Freefall went for a morning ride," Earhart explained hanging up the apron he had been wearing. Karl had to wonder if David's sudden outing with Freefall has anything to do with what Karl said the night before. He finally came to the decision that he didn't care either way.

"You and David got a letter from your father, David has already read it. Hm. Here," Earhart said placing a letter in front of him with the seal already broken. Karl thanked him again and opened and read the letter.

Zippo was planing to make a trip the Hatchery to get a better look at this egg. Now leaving his library was not something Zippo extremely liked to do but the egg and his friends were at the Hatchery which was the best place for them to be. So now Zippo had to pick and chose which books to take with him. Marion had sent him word about what they had discovered about the egg so at least now he had an area of books to chose from. He hated leaving books behind. He just knew the moment he got to the Hatchery there would be a book they would so desperately need that he had left behind. He looked at how many he had packed so far. Twelve cases, but was it enough?

Karl assumed that since David had flown off somewhere he expected for Karl to do what the letter asked. Actually Karl expected the David wanted him to do what the letter asked because it wasn't the kind of thing David has done for awhile. 26 had been amused bothering Marion and Amelia in the garden so Karl had taken the chance to take a walk into to town to find the Matriarch. Actually when Karl had watched 26 out with Marion and Amelia in the garden for a bit, he actually considered not doing what their father asked. Their father wanted them to ask the Matriarch for all of the information there was on getting or trying to get off of the island. They wouldn't let him get to the information, but maybe with the Matriarch's okay… Their father still wanted to get off of the island. He had friends and a business to run in the Outland. Karl doubted the Matriarch would let his father see the information but he'd asked anyway. When she'd say "no" Karl and David would probably team up and try to explain it to their dad that to the rest of the world the three of them were dead. His company had probably been dealt with as he had planned it to in his will and his friends were probably moving on by now. Going back now would just be unsettling to everyone.

As Karl walked through the farm he noticed a lot of little kids following him. Whenever he would turn around they would all tuck behind a barrel or a house or something. It was an "open tail," Karl thought. Well, it was an unintentional open tail. Eventually Karl felt he'd just give the kids a run for their money and suddenly started walking backwards. He looked backward every now and then to see the kids' reaction. He laughed every time.