I continue to head north until I spot a cave in the near distance. I run into the cave, heedless of any potential danger. I'm too cold to care. When I reach the cave, I literally collapse inside it. I curl up into a shivering ball of fur. I'm reduced to whimpering from the extreme cold. I close my eyes. I can feel more tears begin to form. This time, I don't bother trying to hold them back. I allow the tears to start flowing down my cheeks unchecked. I begin sobbing openly. I just feel so hurt and betrayed. Being cold doesn't exactly lighten my mood. I can't stop the tears that are falling like little rivers down my face.

Slowly, I stop crying. I sniffle and wipe my eyes free of the tears. I look around more inside the cave. I see rock pictures drawn everywhere. I don't know what they mean, though I wish I did. The pictures seem to be telling some kind of story. I trace the pictures with my paw.

That's when I hear a strange roar from further in the cave. That's also when I notice that the cave is actually a long tunnel. I look down the tunnel, curious as to where it may lead. I smile with newfound excitement.

Before I go to explore it further, I scrape my claws on the wall. I write 'I am alive' in big letters, knowing that everyone would recognize my writing. Then, I begin the slow journey through the tunnel. It's long and dark. I can barely see even the shadows of rocks within the tunnel. Needless to say, I keep stubbing my paws on said rocks. I hate that. It hurts! I keep cursing at the rocks for being in my way.

When I exit the tunnel, I am surprised by what I see. There are dinosaurs… everywhere! I thought that they were supposed to be extinct! I see flying dinos and walking dinos alike.

I head down towards the floor of this mysterious place. It's lush and beautiful. I pass by a strange looking plant. I jump out of the way just in time to avoid being eaten by it. That's how I know that even beauty has its dangers.

I hear a soft growling sound coming from somewhere to my right. I jump back just as a raptor's claw scrapes the spot where I stood only a moment before. My breath catches in my throat at the sight of the monster standing before me. Suddenly, more screeches, growls, and clicks come from the same direction as the raptor. Three more pop out from the bushes and growls at me. It's an entire pack of them! I yelp, turn, and run off through the bushes with the four raptors chasing after me. One snaps at me. Its jaws nearly catch my tail. Somehow, I barely manage to slip away from harm. I still don't know how I escaped. One minute, I was being chased. The next, I am up in a tree, miles away from the raptors.

I wait for a while. When the raptors don't show up, I assume that I lost them. I climb down the tree trunk. When I am a yard from the bottom, I jump and land nimbly on my paws. I look around, twitching my nose as I take in the scents of the world around me. The tree that I jumped from is a single tree in the middle of a field of large, leafy bushes. The closest forest appears to be a mile away from where I am. I can only just make out the tree line in the distance. That forest seems to be the most decent location in this world. It's the perfect place to hide in. I decide to try to get to that forest. Hopefully, there will be some sort of cave or something that I can make into my new home. I can't wait, especially since I can decorate it how I'd like. I chuckle softly out of excitement, already envisioning the different things I'll use to spruce up my soon-to-be new home. That is, if I can find the things I'll want to use. After all, I only just arrived in this world. I don't know all of what's here, yet.

When I make it to the forest area closest to me, I begin to explore. At that moment, a storm rolls in unexpectedly. Rain is pouring down. I'm curious by how an underground world can even have rain when the sky isn't even visible through the icy ceiling. I hear a roar nearby. I turn around. I see a red eye staring at me. I'm frozen to the spot. I never expected to meet trouble when I first arrived. Before I can react to the sight of the colossal monster, I see the owner of the eye raise a claw. My right eye is torn from its socket. I scream in agony as I fly backward.

The giant white dinosaur roars as I get to my knees, my right paw over the empty socket. I'm breathing heavily as I turn to look at the beast that half blinded me. I get up and run off, hoping to escape the beast.

I climb to the top of a tree, gasping for breath. I tie a leaf around my head to cover my eye socket. I grab a branch to defend myself and start looking around. I step backward, almost falling from the tree. I make the slightest sound as I regain my balance. However, that sound is enough. I feel his breath ruffle the fur on my back. I turn around. I stare in horror at the beast looming over me. My mouth is wide open in shock. I scream as his mouth closes over me.

I find myself being sucked down in the dino's throat. I know that I'm slowly being swallowed. I climb up his throat desperately. I look up. The sight of the pink fleshy thing that's dangling above me feeds me new hope. I grab onto it, desperately pulling myself out of the monster's throat. I hold onto the thing. I swing myself back and forth a good few times, gaining proper momentum. After the final swing, I launch myself straight out of the beast's mouth. When I do that, the beast himself roars in pain. In order to escape, I had to knock his tooth out.

Before I run off, I grab the fallen tooth. I decide to take it with me. I run for miles until I see a cave a safe distance away from the dino. The cave sits on a ledge surrounded by shrubs. It'll be protected enough from outside threats. I place the tooth on the cave floor. "I should make a knife out of this…" I mutter to myself. I clean the tooth off and set it back down.

That's when the shock and adrenaline wear off. I start to feel sharp pain coming from my eye socket. My paw flies to my eye socket in a feeble attempt to stem the pain. It hardly works, though. I yowl from the pain.

I stumble out of the cave. The things that I need lie elsewhere. I head off into the forest, careful to be as quiet as possible. I know that there may be more dinos that would want to make a meal out of me. I can't be too careful, now can I?

I find a clear pool of water. I take a leaf. I wet it and begin to clean my eye socket. I'm trying to bite back my cries of pain. This is the worse pain than I've ever felt. I find a new leaf to replace the former eye patch. The old one was much too bloody.

I find a poppy flower. I eat some of the seeds to help with my pain. Unfortunately, though, the poppy seeds don't want to work right away. I can still feel the stabbing pain. I find some leaves and moss below a tree near my cave. I make a nest out of them. Finally, after much time spent waiting, the poppy seeds start to work. I lay down on my new nest. I close my remaining eye. After awhile, I manage to fall into a somewhat peaceful sleep.

I wake up a couple of hours later to the burning sensation of my eye socket. I yowl and squirm within my nest. I can feel the pain start to become unbearable. I cry out with the agony. I'm breathing heavily as if I am hyperventilating. Maybe I am. I might be in shock. I crawl away from my nest. I'm hurting so much that I don't even feel much like finding food.

The nervousness and pain becomes to much. I lean forward and begin vomiting on the floor of my cave. I'm coughing, trying to stop. However, I can't. I continue to heave and retch, bringing up the contents of my stomach. After awhile, I stop vomiting. I'm holding onto my stomach as if I'm afraid that it'll fall off. At this point, I think it might. I'm not so sure.

I crawl back over to my nest, neglecting to wipe the vomit from my face. I hurt too much to move. I curl up on my nest. I'm whimpering from the overwhelming pain. I just want all of this to stop. I close my eye in a final attempt to ignore the pain. It works, as I'm finally able to get back to sleep.