The surrounding area was quiet. The humidity of the air was at a damp level as the boy sat; slightly cold from the damp mist that surrounded him waiting for the time to pass. He wanted the time to pass so that daybreak would come and they could move on. He would have to wait until his good friend Bless awakened. Bless was a female Parasaurolophus. And she was deeply pregnant, expectant at any time. They had travelled from Pooktook to the hatchery where Will and Arthur Denison had first been taken when they had arrived on Dinotopia as it just seemed the thing to do and they hadn't any real knowledge of Hatchery's around Dinotopia they spent a lot of their time travelling. He had awoken early thanks to the soft mist that had settled on him and Bless while they slept. He could only wait for Bless to awake, as it wasn't a good idea to wake a pregnant Parasaurolophus, so he sat huddled against a tree, waiting. His name was Ray Britons; he was 29 summers old, a Dinotopia born human but 4 mothers Russian. He had been born on June the 5th 1869. The date at the moment was 7.48AM on June the 3rd 1898. He had blonde strait hair, was relatively tall but looked more athletic then he actually was. Hopefully today if they made good timing then they could arrive at the Hatchery by evening. Then they could wait around the area, or in the hatchery until the "miracle" happened. Ray was not sure why he went around with Bless; it seemed a good thing though as they seemed to enjoy being in each other's company. They had met in rather smelly conditions. Ray a year before had worked as one of the street cleaners in Waterfall City, the rubbish and the excretion of the Saurian. Although he hadn't minded this job much it was not his choice of thing to do on a Saturday morning and he was really dying to go around Dinotopia with someone. And that someone was Bless as it turned out to be. This had happened a three years ago, but they had only left the city to explore Dinotopia more on November the 23rd 1897 as they had stayed in close company for 2 years getting to know each other. Ray was very time tight, and he somehow always knew the time, and he always dated important things in a small journal like dates of meeting people and saurian like Bless. He liked just looking back to see what was actually their and what he had done as sometimes is mind slipped. He didn't see time in the same way as most Dinotopians did. Bless was a female Parasaurolophus waiting to lay her eggs. She was 42 summers old and had been hatched in the hatchery that they were going to. Another reason why they were going to this hatchery and not a different one. Bless's main "bulk" of her body was a silvery grey, as was her head however she had a darker shade of grey on her tail and dark orange "lashes" coming down from her lower eyelids. She had a well-controlled temper; bit could be a bit timid at times towards humans she didn't know. Ray had managed to rout his way around this initial timid attitude and had gained her trust.

She had now trusted him enough to ask him to come with her on this journey. However she hadn't told him who the other parent was, and she wasn't really intending to do so until the time was "right" or whenever she wanted to. Ray dozed off, which helped the time pass. The rather obvious movement of Bless awaked him as she aroused and by the look on her saurian face she didn't seem to be in the best mood. The time had passed to 9.13AM. Bless hadn't said anything, she had simply got up however she was ready to go. Ray did not get a lot of time in the morning to prepare himself recently as it was not a bad idea to get off as soon as bless woke for various reasons.

They set off, not a word said between them. This is what had happened for the last week Bless and Ray were not talking to each other. This was not because they didn't like each other but that they just woke up and didn't talk. They would talk a bit later. The journey that they had done had occupied a week and a half of their time, longer then they had anticipated but it didn't particularly matter at the time. It did now. Bless needed to get to the Hatchery quickly and the plan was for her to the Hatchery today so she could be ready. Ray just kept running that through his head. Bless did too. It was almost as if they shared the same brain, they really did get on that well. However their "relationship" was not watertight. Quite a few times they had argued over the three years that they had been together and the silly thing was that the arguments were always over silly things. The most recent being about if they should have taken a slightly longer path to the shore where they could walk along the seafront or if they should stick to their originally planned path. This had been about a month ago. They had gone by the seafront at Bless's request after some "negotiation" (which would have also required Ray to be able to outrun an angry Bless if he had still disagreed go to the seafront. Being able to run fast was a rather good advantage when Bless was annoyed because it helped Ray keep his distance.)