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jack...impressive, if we had heard of any dinosaur, we had heard of the tyrannosaur. Nearly fifty foot high, many of the armoured herbivores were larger, but none... The one that pursued us to the river never came close to us, but it was intimidating from the horizon. When it fixed its eyes on us we shivered and urged our stegoi faster, as though it could close that distance in seconds... We saw one close to only briefly, but the terror will never leave us, we saw it, and then it was on top of us, a twenty foot wide swathe through the trees levelled instantly, and a stegoi hurled into the air and snapped in half in seconds... guts sucked...
...bound by the most forceful souls, they could not support the level of intellect some of the more fleet footed saurians could, but served as terrible command posts, driving the hunt for us on, marshalling scouts into the air and attack raptors into ungainly but deadly ambushes...
...terrifying, but one glance from their eyes had nearly the same effect, you felt that alone could stop you dead... that brutal force of will made us think them the true dragons, but their own name was itself so well entrenched even "dragon" could ne'er displace it.
...bound by the most forceful souls, they could not support the level of intellect some of the more fleet footed saurians could, but served as terrible command posts, driving the hunt for us on, marshalling scouts into the air and attack raptors into ungainly but deadly ambushes...
...terrifying, but one glance from their eyes had nearly the same effect, you felt that alone could stop you dead... that brutal force of will made us think them the true dragons, but their own name was itself so well entrenched even "dragon" could ne'er displace it.
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Date: 2008-04-06 11:47 pm (UTC)*hugs* I definitely think you should stick to the "write what you feel like writing all at once", and not try to plan stuff, but it's up to you, I'd be curious to see what you'd do if you have a chance.
[1] It would be so handy in that respect if all the entries had a 'lost world' tag *hint hint* ;)
LOL. Whoops. *most* do. I think they all have "fic". Maybe I should turn on the "allow other people to tag your entries" :)
Shame about aerosol, that would have been nice :)
:) Yeah.
It's possible: it might have been in use in scientific circles before it made it into an etymological dictionary. And the time is notionally something like late 19th century, and the women may come from points scattered a bit about that.
But I was sure if I used it, it would look fake, so I resisted :)