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Freedom… That was what emerging from the underground meant. The herd had learned that an exit had opened when islanders started to trickle into the facility in search of the source of the anteos and apparent oddities that had flooded the island when the anteos poured out. The visitors had been kind enough to tell them stories of what lay beyond, encouraging them to leave. It was still hard to believe that there coul...

Genesis - a place where all things begin. If Ouranos didn’t find food, it would also be the place where he ended. He wasn’t so hungry to feel the pressure of starvation just yet, though. He and his brother, Ephialtes, had only hatched in this strange place recently. They were still nourished by the yolk of their eggs, though the n...

Pisces was old. As Smoketrail grew up, he began to realise more and more what that meant, and the weight of that knowledge weighed more and more heavily on his heart. She couldn’t take care of herself well anymore. Her hearing was going, as was her eyesight, and she was relying more on her sense of smell and her waning memories to get around. Smoketrail worried for her, even though Pisces assured him she was fine. S...

Small feet pattered over hard savannah earth as Hekla tried to shove her way through thick clumps of grass, under tangled shrubs, and over and around rocks that were the size of small boulders to the tiny styracosaurus. She honked as loud as she could, but the answer to her anxious cries for attention were the same as they had been since she realised she was separated from her family: nothing but silence. No one called back but birds that scattered and took to t...

Minnow’s stay with Creek’s family had been short, but sweet. She had really liked having someone to play with, and somewhere warm and safe to curl up at night in, but was afraid that ultimately… something bad would happen to them if she stayed. And then… something bad did happen....

Minnow bounded across the forest floor, then stopped and squashed herself low to the ground to try to hide. She listened intently, looking around for any sign of something bigger wandering around. A utahraptor, or a carnotaurus looking for a snack, or even something as small as a large eagle would still be perfectly capable of whisking her away. She was growing, but she was not ...

Eos ran as quickly as she could across the Peran landscape, claws kicking up pebbles and small bits of debris with every frantic step. She panted as she ran, arms folded close to her chest with her claws tucked away so that they didn’t catch or break on anything as she ran through the twisting, turning corridors and crags of the rock and boulder-strewn stretch of the Peran scrublands. The landscape was rapidly turning into a canyon, the ground curving downward...

Minnow hurried across the leaf-covered ground, scampering as fast as her squat little legs could carry her. The rustling leaf litter betrayed her path to anyone that might be listening and it made her only want to go faster, her heart pounding her chest. Everything was too big, too terrifying. She had known since very soon after hatching that atopos were food for whatever decide...

“Wake up! C’mon, Layla’s been away for ages and I’m bored.” Dullahan nibbled on Callahan’s cheek feathers, purposefully trying to annoy her so that she got up and paid attention to him. The joke was on Dullahan - she was starting to lose her hatchling feathers and they were slowly being replaced by a more protective layer of feathers and it itched ...

The odds that two animals would hatch from the same egg was small, but it wasn’t an impossibility. That was how Callahan and Dullahan hatched: together. They were fully formed, perfectly healthy except for being smaller than was typical for a utahraptor fresh out of the egg. They were markedly similar in appearance with their grey and black colours with striped limbs - the only differences between them being that Ca...

“Are you sure it’s this way?” Hael panted as he tried to keep up with Amaryllis. They’d both had a growth spurt, but Amaryllis still managed to be larger than him. Even though she was heavier as well, she had more speed in her step than the young parasaur, and longer strides. “I’m supposed to help keep watch this evening, ...

Being a rather small thing was difficult work. Keeping up with the herd on short little legs was hard, and grazing on even the most succulent and young leaves left Hael full and sleepy. His siblings were more than happy to kick up a fuss and run around on wobbly legs as they started to develop their strength, but he just wanted to doze in the gentle afternoon sun. Maybe not in the ...