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“Shelly, careful! These plants need full sun to grow properly. Don’t put them too close to the trees.” “Sorry, Vee!” Macaw sat restlessly as his chaperones went about their work. He felt that much of his life had involved watching other oviraptors have all the fun while he was stuck on the sidelines. He loved seeing new places and faces and the traveling of course, but it was like he was only an observer, and not a real member of the flock. An...

Jolene was tracking a pair of cryos. They were so wrapped up in their own conversation that they hadn’t noticed her yet. The pair didn’t look similar in the slightest; one was dark and feathered, the other light brown and scaled. But their scents were so closely linked that Jolene hadn’t realized she was trailing two cryos until she saw them. And there was something else to that scent, too… They smelled a little bit like Kyrien. But only a little bit. ...

“Have you seen them?” “Seen what?” Kyrien looked up from his meal: a mountain goat that Jolene had caught for them. Jolene had stopped eating, though he couldn’t tell if it was because she’d already eaten her fill or if she was so focused on her question. It was hard to tell with her. “Oviraptors. Those new dinosaurs that have been showing up everywhere. Popping out of the ground like weeds.” Kyrien thought for a moment, ...

Fainel didn’t have as negative of an opinion on the oviraptors as some of the other inhabitants of the islands. She had no idea why they’d stayed hidden for so long, but maybe it was for good reason. They could have been trapped until recently, or were worried the larger dinosaurs would attack them—something that was, unfortunately, proving true. Either way, she didn’t regard them with suspicion, but compassion. So when she came across a single oviraptor, hardl...

The nomadic life was serving Kyrien well. Every day, there was something new to see (or eat), and new dinosaurs to meet. Not all were friendly, but it made Kyrien feel more grown-up to have seen so much variety. (Whether or not he had actually gotten any more mature was up for debate.) Still, he missed his old pack at times. Things could be very… quiet, without them. Yes, the whole reason he left was for some peace and quiet. But sometimes, after spen...

Metal towers gleamed in the dying light of sunset as Veikur made her rounds. It had only grown more difficult to navigate between the scrapheaps as she grew older, so she spent a lot of time elsewhere in the city. But the old human trinkets held nostalgia for her. When she was a hatchling, she’d spent her days building a miniature empire among the garbage heaps. There were always plenty of small creatures rummaging around, which made for an excellent feast for a young acrocanthosaur...

According to Vanim, Kyrien was going through his “rebellious teen phase,” which Kyrien refused to acknowledge. As if Vanim would know anything about rebelliousness! The old man had never done anything interesting in his whole life. Kyrien knew it, the twins knew it, everyone knew it. The twins were more fun to play with, but they were constantly exploding with enthusiasm; Frasil was too rough when they tussled and Fainel was always talking. Kyrien couldn’t stand it....

Seffe knew that strange things were happening on Isla Kera. It made Swavelli nervous, but a lot of things made Swavelli nervous. She was the sort that liked to have the perfect answer to everything, and all of the recent unexpected events agitated her. Even without saying it outright, Seffe could see it in the pinch of her brow and the twitching of her claws, and Seffe didn’t want her panicking any more than she already was. So Seffe stuck to the shore, away from all of the aggressiv...

Life was rough for a lone baby dinosaur. When Kanna hatched, she was surrounded by eggshells and cryolophosaurus scent that was several days old. She’d been the last to hatch, and, evidently, her family hadn't felt like sticking around and waiting for her. So from the very beginning, she was alone. She spent a few days trying to follow the scent of her family, but she was slow, rambling, and inexperienced, and realized she had no hope of finding them. So she left the...

Swavelli and Seffe both loved the beach, though she knew it was for different reasons. Swavelli was built for diving and fishing, and would spend hours at a time wading and swimming, sometimes hunting for fish but other times just for pleasure. The water slid gracefully off of her scales when she came back onto land, which combined with the hot sun meant she got dry almost instantly. Seffe was another story. He was up for splashing around in the shallows, and investiga...

The twins Fainel and Frasil were still small, but made up for it with sheer energy. And in a pack as small as theirs, entertainment was hard to come by. Vanim was doting but awkward, and not very “fun” by the definitions of hyperactive, curious hatchlings. Their older sibling-adjecent-relation was something of a troublemaker, too, which made him a much more attractive target for nagging and prodding. On one warming spring day, Kyrien was picking around at the stamp...