Here's the next chapter, enjoy!

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With their first rescue under their belt, Elise and Drew are feeling very confident.

However, the group still hasn't seen an Arizonasaurus.

"Okay, any ideas on where to look for an Arizonasaurus?" asks Drew.

"How about the river we saw earlier?" answers Elise. "It's almost midday, so everything is probably going to be looking for somewhere to drink."

"Good idea," remarks Nigel. "Come on, let's get going."

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Back at the park, some of the aquatic residents are proving to be a handful.

At one of the aquatic pens, Ted is staring at the gigantic form of a Shonisaurus. The giant animal appears to be rather bruised, for some reason.

"Ugh, this is going to be a problem. See, the ichthyosaurs are normally used to eating fish and squid from large schools, where there's plenty of room to move around. The problem with this, though, is that when we fee them, they tend to collide with each other because the fish is released in a rather small area. We've already got plans to fix this, I just hope they'll work.'

The ichthyosaur stares at Ted, as if wondering the same thing.

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While Ted tries to comfort the whale-like reptile, Suzanne is busy attending to another of the park's residents, who is finding the heat to be troublesome.

Suzanne is near a pond, with some fish in front of her. Nearby is one of the Slaugenhopia, submerged up to its eyes in the pond. Despite this, it seems rather uncomfortable.

Suzanne, noticing the temnospondyl's discomfort, pushes the fish toward it, trying to coax it out of the water, if only for a moment. The fish stares at them hungrily, ad looks as if it wants to leave the water, but, after a moment, it decides against this. This course of action leave Suzanne both exasperated and depressed.

"Temnospondyls are like other amphibians: they need to keep themselves moist in order to survive. In heat waves, they'll take shelter in water to keep cool. The problem is, this one is stuck in a rather shallow pond that's already started heating up."

Suzanne then turns her attention to a large lake some ways away. In it, more Slaugenhopia are swimming around, with one basking on a log.

"This guy swam over here a few weeks ago and seems to prefer being here rather than in the main lake. Now, this normally wouldn't be a problem, but over the last few weeks, the streams that lead from here to the main lake dried up, and now he's stuck in here. I think he's trying to wait out the day until the sun sets, which'll let him crawl on land without far, but I'm worried that he'll be cooked before that happens. I've been trying to get him out of here, but he just doesn't want to move."

If Suzanne doesn't act soon, her charge will soon become a roast.

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While Suzanne handles the temnospondylids, Bob has his own residents to work watch. And for once, they

aren't a hassle.

In one of the desert exhibits, Bob is cleaning up a pile of bones. Nearby, what appears to be a fluffy tumbleweed rests in the shade of a large rock.

Suddenly, Bob steps on a twig, snapping it. The minute this happens, the tumbleweed begins to move. At first, it only seems to twitch, before a branch goes up, revealing itself to be the head of a raptor dinosaur. The raptor, after shaking off the grip of sleep, looks around, before settling its attention on Bob. For a moment, there is tension in the air, before the raptor seems to become calm and lays its head back down, beneath the cover of one of its wings.

Bob's response to this is too laugh.

"It's funny, but these Velociraptors are actually some of the easiest creatures to care for: they're mostly awake at night, so when I have to come in to clean up after them, they're usually asleep. This heatwave might be a problem for our other residents, but not these ones: they're used to deserts and just find shade to sleep behind. Makes caring for them easy."

And for that, Bob is grateful.

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Back in Prehistoric Arizona, the team has arrived at the river. So far, though, there's no sign of their quarry.

Despite being a major source of water, the river is oddly calm: no animals dwell on the banks, nor are there any temnospondyls swimming in the water. However, the reason for this is obvious to the team: this part of the river is composed almost entirely of rapids, leaving it unsafe for large swimmers. For, the team, though, this is a setback.

"Well, there isn't any life here," remarks Violet, "where should we go now?"

"Well," replies Elise, "maybe we should try heading down river? There's more shade that way, and the current might die down, so we could probably find animals there. All I see upriver is desert."

"Fair enough," responds Aileen, "downriver we go!"

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A few minutes later, the team has made it far enough down the river that the terrain levels out. There current is softer, and there is indeed more shade...

And with it, life.

In the shade of the forest, a herd of strange creatures are feasting. The resemble lizards, but with parrot-like beaks on their snouts. Nearby, a menagerie of temnospondylids basks in the sun, with a few searching for fish amid the lake. On the bank opposite to the group, at a point where river is very wide, a herd of pig-like reptiles are busy quenching their thirst. Each of these strange beasts has a pair of tusks on their snouts, which a few of them are using to root around in a fern plain.

But, to the team, the most important sight is a group of eight reptiles just a little ways away from the piglike reptiles, which are gorging themselves on the carcass of a tusked beast. Aside from their orange bodies, they have one distinctive feature:

Each has a sail on it's back, colored either yellow or purple.

It seems the team has found the Arizonasaurus. But not, they face a new problem: getting them back home.

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Here's another hint about who Elise is based on: she likes dinosaurs.

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