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Something, or someone, has taken Zhen. There’s no doubt about it. I check the gap in the thicket, you have to crawl on your knees to go through it. That might explain why Zhen’s bandages came off, but it doesn’t explain how Zhen could bear the pain to attempt such a thing.
‘Maybe the T. rex tooks her?’ says Pip.
‘You think we’d not notice that?’ says Takeshi. ‘You think the Rex would leave us behind, tuck us in and kiss us goodnight? Look around you. Nothing is disturbed. Even our branches are untouched.’
‘Maybe the baby one tooks her through that hole? Who else could has taken her?’
‘I don’t know.’ Takeshi holds his arms out. ‘Maybe any multitude of carnivores that have been trying to eat us since day one? But a smaller one, Pip, a smaller one.’
‘But they wouldn’t hunts so close
