Chapter Two.

The village not town, had no roads, no cars, houses made out of wood, clay, straw and mud, and several small market stalls lining the streets. It was early mourning and numerous people in strange, simple clothing casually walked, chatted and bartered, barely noticing the two girls, in their clearly foreign clothes, as they cautiously followed Crabb down the muddy street.

"OKAY! Rose I think we've just stepped back in time," muttered Adele gazing around in astonishment, then she giggled. "Hey Rose, I'm the only gay in the village." Both Rose and Crabb stopped and glared at her, Crabb questioningly, Rose unable to believe that she was joking at a time like this.

"What? Did I say something wrong!" she innocently replied to their looks. Rose untangled herself from Adele's arm and walked away almost causing Adele to topple over. "Hey Rose what are you doing?" Rose did not answer merely continued to walk away from Adele until about to pass Crabb was stopped by his cane jumping out in front of her. She stopped but did not look at him.

" Not very decent leaving a friend behind."

"Do I look like I care! I'm exhausted, I'm hungry, I'm hurt, my dad is who knows where, that's if he is even alive, We're stuck in this place which looks like it could be Bree from Lord of the Rings and to top that all off a place that looks like it had never heard of a phone never mind has one." She turned to Adele and pointed an accusing finger angrily, not caring about the fact that now everyone in the vicinity was now staring at them shocked. "And you, all you can do is make sarcastic comments about some character from some bloody TV series."

"Hey! Don't you think I know how dire the situation is?" she replied hurtfully.

"No I don't think you do!" she stormed up to her friend in anger and almost pushed her backwards.

"Well I do, and do you know why?" Her voice was raising and becoming angrier. "Because I am in exactly the same situation as you, except I'm trying to make the best of it instead of moaning abo…"

"Yeah well, it's not your dad who is missing, it's not your dad who is probably dead!"

"Hey! Don't you start on that I'm sorry your dad is missing, but there is nothing I can do about it, so don't you take that out on me. You're the one with the pent up anger. In fact if your the one who was meant to be navigating, if you hadn't gotten us lost in the first place we wouldn't even be here!" Adele was not an arguing person or one who got up set easily but now she yelled these last words with full force, and it had been the last straw for Rose. Tears streaming down her face she raised her arm back to strike Adele but before she could manage to do so, a hand tightly grabbed her arm. Immediately she spun around and with her other hand punched this peacemaker in the face. Crabb fell backwards into a stall, but Rose did not care. She had never been this angry before but as she looked back into her friends upset face she found that she could no longer hit her, so instead she glared at her once best friend then turned and stormed away.

"Don't you dare turn your back on me." But Rose took no notice and continued to walk away. Adele suddenly felt her anger dissipate as the distance grew between them. She felt small and was now conscious of the shocked faces around her. "Rose… Rose please don't go. I'm sorry I didn't mean it. Rose don't leave me on my own." Rose paused in her steps. She knew that she cold not leave Adele on her own, injured. There was no doubt that Rose was in the right to abandon her friend, but this was not something she could do. Not that she was going to let Adele get away with it. One more nasty comment ought to do it. She spun around about to hurl her words when a sight and a sound stopped her. The sound came first, it was a loud roar of pain, soon followed by it's source, a two meter long dinosaur charging along the street on all fours, smashing as it went. People, forgetting about the two newcomers and the man lying on the stall on which he had fallen knocked out, dived out of the way of the rampaging creature, Rose included. Adele stood there, her back to the dinosaur. She turned slowly around to the sight of the great armoured ankylosaurus. She had frozen in fear and just plain shock at seeing a dinosaur that was not bones or CGI.

"ADELE GET OUT OF THE WAY!" Rose yelled over the noise of the animal. Adele was rooted to the spot and Rose knew this and she had to help before the dinosaur got to close (even though she had not yet forgiven her friend). She threw herself to her feet and ran towards the stunned girl and just as the creature massive club of a tail was about to deliver a crippling blow to Adele, Rose dived at Adele causing them to both topple sideway out of the path of the deadly club. The beast continued foreword barely missing Crabb just as he was coming round. Adele and Rose stared at each other awkwardly for two seconds before Rose looked away. Both knew that Rose had just saved Adele's life, again, and this time Adele was going to thank her, but before she could, the sound of a woman's voice distracted them.

Standing in the middle of the ankiesaurus's path, one hand raised, she softly spoke. "Easy now, what's wrong?" She was communicating with the animal, calming it down. The creature opened its mouth and she slowly reached out, put her hand in its mouth and pulled out a very large molar. The creature moaned satisfactorily then turned and left. People clapped as Marion told them that it was simple toothache before walking way as though nothing had happened.

The girls joined Crabb in getting to their feet and the people moved on with their business. Adele's foot had been made worse by the fall but she managed to haul herself up using what was left of the stall. Adele was still staring shocked in the direction that the dinosaur had gone, but Rose's attention had now turned to Crabb who was limping towards them, he looked at Adele then at Rose. On Rose his gaze was fixed for several seconds, although his face was blank, the anger in his eyes did not go unnoticed by Rose just before he masked it with a calm and schooled look. There was an uncomfortable silence broken suddenly by the sound of laughter. Both Rose and Crabb turned to see Adele doubled over laughing hysterically. Rose's anger began to rise again. This was madness. Adele was now laughing despite the fact that Rose had just saved her life again at the risk of her own life something she certainly hadn't had to do, they had just seen a dinosaur and the comment from earlier had not been forgotten, and the true shock of their situation was now crashing down on her like a huge wave. And here she was just watching her laugh her head off! Rose opened her mouth. "Oh will you shu…" but was stopped in mid sentence by Crabb who still rubbing his jaw, was able to see the opening of another fight.

"Now!" Adele managed to stop laughing in order to listen.

"Finally," Rose snarled under her breath unaware that Crabb had heard.

"I think we had better get you to a doctor before that leg get any worse, then I'll have to be off girls."

"What!" cried Adele. "Your leaving us!"

"I'll take you to the doctors first. Rose if you'll help your friend walk we can get there all the faster." There was something in the way he had said the word 'friend', that gave Rose the impression that he knew of the difficulties in the girls relationship at the moment. It felt to Rose that he had taken a mental note of this information, but as she begrudgingly aided Adele these thoughts slid out of her mind.