Ruby laid in the woods. She wondered whether or not she had been knocked unconscious, because she had only dim recollections of events immediately preceding the moment she had sat up, groaning, in the woods ten yards from the jeep. At first her chest had been bleeding, so she had stuck leaves on the wound, and after a while it clotted. But, her leg had been impaled by a sharp branch on the ground Ruby couldn't believe she was still alive, and as scattered images began to come back to her, she tried to make sense of them. The Tyrannosaur should have killed her easily. Why hadn't it?

"Ruby!" Yang called out Ruby's name, and Ruby replied, "Here," Yang ran to where the girl lay. "You okay?" she asked. "Anything broken?"

"No," Ruby said, "I don't think so, but my leg . . ."

"I don't think I can move you with your leg like that." Yang said.

"Then I'll bleed out," Ruby said, "in that case, listen to me; The Tyrannosaur can't see you if you don't move."

"What?"

"If you don't move, it can't see you, tell the others."

"Oh, damn," Blake said, approaching the two, and seeing the younger's leg.

"Can we move her?" Yang asked.

"Yeah," Blake said. "Worst case scenario; she passes out."

"Why- Why would I pass out?" Ruby asked, a worried tone in her voice.

"Blood loss," Blake said.

Blake and Yang slowly, and tentatively lifted Ruby's leg off of the branch, eliciting a cry of pain from the scythe-wielder. Ruby's eyes began to slowly close, as she began to see little black dots, clouding her vision. She became light-headed, and passed out.

When Ruby awoke, she was lying in a room colored with a lot of gray. She could hear the sounds of people speaking.

"Taiyang, I am aware that she is your daughter, but she has no reason to be in here!"

"Ray, she is injured!"

"Take her to the clinic!"

"What are they gonna do? Give her a god-damn Band-Aid?"

"If it's big enough, it'll work!"
"Have you ever seen a Band-Aid that big?"
"Use the whole pack!"

"That's not the point! The point is; I brought her in here so that I could keep an eye on her."

"What's there to watch? She's been out like a light for half-an-hour, now! Is she even alive? Wait, I know the answer! Because I can hear the god-damned wheezing!"

Ruby sat up, propping herself up with her elbows, then tried to get up, only to be pushed back down onto her back. "You're not going anywhere with that leg of yours." Taiyang said.

"Oh, okay." Ruby said, laying on her side.

Goodwitch sat in the Jeep and listened to the buzzing of the flies, and stared at the distant palm trees wavering in the heat. She was astonished by what looked like a battleground; the grass was trampled flat for a hundred yards in every direction. One big palm tree was uprooted from the ground. There were great washes of blood in the grass, and on the rocky outcropping to their right.

Sitting beside her, Taiyang said, "No doubt about it. Rexy's been among the hadrosaurs." He took another drink of whiskey, and capped the bottle. "Damn lot of flies," he said.

They waited and watched.

Goodwitch drummed her fingers on the dashboard. "What are we waiting for?"

Taiyang didn't answer immediately. "The rex is out there somewhere," he said, squinting at the land in the morning sun. "And we don't have any weapons worth a damn."

"We're in a Jeep."

"Oh, he can out run the Jeep, Ms. Goodwitch," Taiyang said, shaking his head. "Once we leave this road and go out into open terrain, the best we can do in four-wheel drive is thirty, forty miles an hour. He'll run us right down. No problem for him." Taiyang sighed. "But I don't see much moving out there now. You ready to live dangerously?"

"Sure," Goodwitch said.

Taiyang started up the engine, and at the sudden sound, two small othnielians leapt up from the matted grass directly ahead. Taiyang put the car in gear. He drive in a wide circle around the trampled sight, and then moved inward, driving in decreasing concentric circles until he finally came to the place in the field where the little othnielians had been. Then he got out and walked forward onto the grass, away from the Jeep, He stopped as a dense cloud of flies lifted into the air.

"What is it?" Goodwitch called.

"Bring the radio," Taiyang said.

Cliff-hanger! That's kinda sad, because I'm going on vacation for the next week! See you when I get back!