the Costa Ricans thought they were smart, but John ended up making a steal at 7 million. that's the same price the USA bought Alaska for, and it has a ton of resources to have paid for itself several times over by now.
still, the five deaths were now officially under the ownership of Ingen's R&D branch with another one halfway between the main chain and the Costa Rican mainland. I already had a complex under construction on the largest island in the chain. an Isla Sorna. I looked it up, apparently, it means sarcastic island in Spanish.
my little egg hatched into a utahraptor that I ended up naming Jet, at around two years old he was the size of a large horse!
His little feathers were just eight inches tall with the toe claws just barely reaching sixteen-inch lengths. Due to fossil records, we know he should be the biggest of the raptors discovered.
Even if we had to dig for his records.
I did get some more amber over the years, I'm currently waiting on the sorna facility to be finished so I can bring the embryos to life.
Hammond's board of directors are throwing a fit over the money the Islands had cost saying there was no point in the apparently useless spending if they weren't making a profit from it.
I told John I can use them for my experiments, and probably net a good biological money maker. Maybe oil-eating algae or something, I'd have to figure out what the byproduct would be.
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Due to how close we were to an active volcanic fault line, the entire island complex was built using military bunker ideology. If we happened to test out an experimental geothermal power source, how would anyone know unless the lights were on after a supposed system failure?
We had plenty of redundant systems in place in case of an emergency. I even had a fully stocked medical center. If we had to send something off the island I would be pissed.
At the current moment, I was doing an inspection of the facility. The walls had been finished a month ago, so those crews were working inside now. The whole thing should be completed next week then I can get started on an experiment or two that I had to put off for safety reasons.
As I entered what would be my lab, I clapped my hands. With only minor things needing to be finished that I would happily admit to being a perfectionist over, I could start on the first of my experiments. I wanted to use another embryo to make a friend for Jet, he looked like he was getting lonely.
I was trying to pick the right amber for the next resurrection when John walked in.
"Ah, there you are I've been looking for you, my dear. Had an idea I see." John always loved my ideas, whether that was genuine or because it shut the board up I don't know might be a bit of both. The board was starting to turn to a flock of vultures when it came to what I did.
"Hello John, it's good to see you. Did Jet give you any trouble?" Jet had been lethal after six months, but he usually only goes after the people who annoy him.
"Of course not I brought his favorite hatchling as a distraction. honestly dear that bird is scarily smart."
I almost giggled at his face, but Jet had been a real danger to children before I explained they were hatchlings and therefore meant to be protected.
John wasn't lying about his intelligence either. after Jet learned to open doors it was damn near impossible to keep him out of something.
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Little Alexis "Lexy" Murphy loved her grandpa, he even had a whole island for her to play on! It even had her bestest friend in the whole world!
Jet didn't talk like a normal person he was what her cousin called a dinosaur but she could understand him just like her cousin Taylor could, so she didn't know how no one else could.
The clicking and growling were hard to mimic though, still easier than the words grandpa used.
Right now she was on her grandpa's big island looking for Jet. He was the absolute best at hide-and-seek. He always found her. Something about her smell, but that's silly, her mommy said flowers were in Lexy's soap so she smelled pretty and there were flowers all over so that couldn't be it.
She had just felt a puff of hot air when she tripped on a stick. She sniffled as she rolled over to see Jet doing his hissy laugh at her.
"Meanie." Lexy huffed as she got up. Jet made a clicky purr sound as he looked her over for any hurts from falling. Deeming her okay he blew another gust of air into her face. "pony time?" the little girl asked with grabby motions of her hands.
Jet tilted his head in thought before he turned her around to lift her onto his head. From his head, she slid down to his shoulders.
Once Lexy was settled he gave a snorting bark to ask her where she wanted to go.
"Let go see what Taylor is doing!" Lexy hugged Jet's neck as he took off to the Island complex.
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