Nearby was an enormous concrete wall. It almost looked like a prison from the outside.
There were several construction workers all over the site.
Claire and Masrani stepped out of the Sikorsky without issue. Masrani's flight instructor meanwhile, ran off into the bushes and vomited.
"Is he okay?" Claire asked with concern. "Are you okay?!"
"Oh, he's being dramatic." Masrani said, looking at the paddock. "Are you still building?"
"We planned to open in May, but asset containment insists that we build the walls up higher. It's bigger than expected."
Masrani looked up at a construction worker welding steel girders together to reinforce the additions.
"It's a good sign." Masrani decided.
Claire and Masrani entered the observation room.
"We've hit a few speed bumps early on." Claire explained. "It began to anticipate where the food would come from. One of the handlers nearly lost an arm. The other threatened to quit if I couldn't guarantee their safety."
"So, she's intelligent then." Masrani said.
"For a dinosaur." Claire said.
"And that?" Masrani pointed at the glass window.
There was a spiderweb crack in the window.
"It tried to break the glass."
"I like her spirit." Masrani said.
Masrani and Claire looked out into the thick jungle that was within the paddock.
The foliage cracked and shook as something large moved among them. A enormous creature rose up, still obscured by the plants and trees.
He watched the Indominus rex move through the paddock.
"Oh it's white." Masrani said in amazement. "You never told me it was white." In his home country of India, white was a symbol of purity.
"Think it'll scare the kids?" Claire asked, with genuine concern.
"The kids? This'll give the parents nightmares."
"Is that...good?" Claire asked.
"It's fantastic." Masrani said in wonder.
The Indominus rex watched the two. An eye blinked and it growled tentatively.
"Can she see us?" Masrani asked.
"They say it can sense thermal radiation, like snakes." Claire explained.
"I thought you said there were two of them." Masrani said.
"There was a sibling in case this one didn't survive infancy." Claire confirmed.
"Where's the sibling?" Masrani asked.
"She ate it." Claire explained.
Masrani looked at Claire, and she smiled. She hoped this dinosaur was as ferocious as Masrani expected.
"So the paddock is quite safe, then." Masrani said.
"We have the best structural engineers in the world." Claire said.
"Yeah, so did Hammond." Masrani said. "There's an American Navyman here, part of a research program one of my companies is running. Owen Grady."
"I know who he is." Claire said. She didn't exactly want to meet him again.
"His animals often try to escape." Masrani said. "They're smart. He has to be smarter."
"He only thinks he's smarter." Claire muttered.
"I want you to bring him in." Masrani said. "Let him inspect the paddock. Maybe he sees something we can't."