Will had never felt so good in his life. After everything that had happened, after coming so close to dying in the first days they had been here, suddenly Will was happy. For the first time in his life, he was popular. One child had died in the dinosaur attack in the bedroom, and the other boy looked as though he would have his leg amputated below the knee. But, and everyone was agreed on this, if not for Will, the death toll would have been far worse. Word had quickly spread about Will’s act of heroism, how he had single-handedly battered the carnivore on the head until its skull cracked open and lay twitching on the blood-soaked floor. Wherever he went, people clapped him on the shoulders, or high-fived him, or simply smiled and said thank you. He was a hero now. Who knew how bad the

