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It happens so fast. One second Zhen’s alive, the next, she’s gone. Gone, forever.
Takeshi bends over, hands on his knees. A deep groan emerges from within him. It’s like I’m watching someone else grab him and pull him away from the riverbank. Pip helps me, and we stumble towards the jungle.
Roar!
The trees of the jungle shake and the head of Tyrant appears. She’s followed us here.
I make sense of it quickly. It’s the T. rex piss. She took a leak on me and I’ve inadvertently marked her scent all the way to the river. She’s picked up on the human scent of the others, intruders as she sees it, and followed their scent all the way through what she now considers her territory.
We’re caught between a rock and a hard place, or in this case, a five-metre-tall Spinosaurus and a four-metre-
