94 STARTLING STORIES covery site, dated by radioactive isotopes, which were then projected into the Recall Chamber. Energy, not matter. Energy, just energy. Of course, the prehistoric beast in the main lab didn’t seem to care much about this quantum anomaly. It seemed more and more irritated by the situation: it roared again, and, even filtered through the loud speak-ers of the control room, the noise froze Kai’s blood. “What are we going to do?” Boris asked again. Kai had no idea. There was no protocol for an eventuality that was considered im-possible. If they’d been in a film, they prob-ably would have filtered nerve gas into the room from invisible pores or eliminated the problem by exploding a small nuclear weap-on. But nobody in his right mind would have considered installing

