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As my foot touched the last branch, I looked down to see a small dinosaur that was about the size of a chicken stalking around in the leaf mulch. Two small front legs and two long, muscular back legs, long tail — kind of cute really — until you saw the rows of sharp little teeth. I froze. I remembered reading about a similar dinosaur from Earth. Compsognathus. It was a carnivore and was thought to hunt in packs. I didn’t know where that memory had come from. It just popped in there.
It looked up and made a weird hissing sound, its strange reptilian eye looking right at me.
Uh oh. There was no way I was going to get down out of the tree now. Even though it was such a small creature, those teeth could do some damage. I stayed as still as I could, hoping it would lose interest, and was
