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17 - Epilogue

D-day + 1 - Somewhere at sea - 7 : 00 am

A new morning rises up.

The clarity has difficulty to impose itself. By a thin hole in the clouds, a low raking sun bathes the scene with an unreal light.

It is only one fleeting calm. The wind is still supported and the clouds are threatening.

A yacht approaches the heavy cargo boat. It comes to look for Trevor and for his men.

Without waiting, the colonel and Jurgen go in the main cabin where they find their sponsors.

- You made some excellent work, sirs, says one of them by opening a suitcase put in front of him, filled with bank notes. »

- Are you sure of it, answers Trevor ? All your charming creatures have been massacred »

They have not seemed to me so exceptional ! »

- You are perfectly right ! »

« But, with all the images in our ownership, we have enough informations to improve them. »

« The next generation will be much more effective !

« And then, do not be too hard with our " charming creatures ", as you say. If there had not been this strange opponent, they would certainly have made many more damages.

« You see, colonel, the presence of this guy was not planned. For months, we tried to get hand on him, but unsuccessfully. We even lost men in this affair.

« We will be able to get interested in him again.

« So, the next time as we shall make an operation on Isla Nublar, we shall be able to kill two birds with one stone. »

- It will be without me, answers Trevor. I do not like these expeditions where we hide. It is not in my culture. »

D-Day + 1 - Isla Nublar - The same hour.

From the control room, Owen and Nicolas watch leaving helicopters.

As the wind a little weakened, they are again operational, even if the conditions of flight remain delicate.

The heavy one transports a metallic profile and a squad to close in a temporary way the breach of the concrete wall.

Meanwhile, "the Apache" will make sure that the aggressors have effectively left the zone and will try to get back the body of the worker killed at the basis of the surrounding wall.

Almost at the same moment, vehicles dash on the track. It's time to go to look after the second Allosaurus and after the Tyrannosaur.

While both men, silencers, are lost in their thoughts, the latter appears on the slope of a headland situated on the West.

The shaving sun gives it a ghostly look.

Arrived at the summit, it straightens the head and pushes a huge scream.

But this one has a curious echo, a mixture of rabies and sadness.

- It is unfortunate, says suddenly Nicolas. It suffers as much in its heart as in its flesh.

« It gave a lot and it lost a lot. »

But, already, the giant theropod turns away and slowly returns towards the forest.

- We have many things to be reconstructed, says Owen. »

- Yes ! You are right ! Let us hope that we will have time enough to do it. »

THE END