Report -- Day 6
Feb. 12th, 2008 01:37 amThe saurians came upon us on the third day as we passed the stone pillar. Whatever the extensive changes to their social structures and empathy, Johnson observed they seem capable of working together to the detriment of non-saurians.
The pillar rises into the sky like a vast finger, a mystery even to the professor, but it seemed an unspoken inevitability that we would pass near it, and the spell was only broken as we passed through the shadow.
A horde or saurians rushed from dead ground behind the pillar. J. Clive cried to us to run, and we urged the stegia into that steady gallop that is not the most quick, but can be kept up for days. Momentarily united, the horde flowed toward us, the carnivores the froth on the wave. A few gangling ostrich-analogues led the pack, long legs spinning wildly, but the ever-present raptors surged around them, and a Terrible King thundered along in the middle of the pack. ( Read more... )
The pillar rises into the sky like a vast finger, a mystery even to the professor, but it seemed an unspoken inevitability that we would pass near it, and the spell was only broken as we passed through the shadow.
A horde or saurians rushed from dead ground behind the pillar. J. Clive cried to us to run, and we urged the stegia into that steady gallop that is not the most quick, but can be kept up for days. Momentarily united, the horde flowed toward us, the carnivores the froth on the wave. A few gangling ostrich-analogues led the pack, long legs spinning wildly, but the ever-present raptors surged around them, and a Terrible King thundered along in the middle of the pack. ( Read more... )