Case #14: Video

[19centconstable]

[George is crouched in some plant-life.]

I have always suspected that dinosaurs weren't truly extinct, but simply hiding out in the unexplored headwaters of the Congo and the Amazon...or perhaps the Scottish highlands. And I was aware that they were probably unpleasant. But I had no idea quite how unpleasant

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[19centconstable]

What about in Loch Ness, though?

[19centconstable]

A trap? In a lake?

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[acertifieduser]

[Eddie is unabashedly laying stomach-to-dirt on the ground beneath some of the giant leaves not far from George. He gives a skeptical look from his hiding perch at his warden's making a network post, but he says nothing. The inmate is slowly coming down from his medication, having lost the rest of his few pills he'd brought in a dinosaur accident. The NZT had kept them both alive, but now he was falling slowly from clarity to withdrawals; he would be worthless tomorrow.]

"They're extinct in our world, George." [He calls out in a controlled quiet, something akin to a stage whisper.] "Now what?"

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[19centconstable]

[George does feel a bit bad about that: Eddie losing his pills. They are his responsibility, technically. But better that something large a scaly is eating them instead of a Spinola/Crabtree sandwich. ...Although possibly not, if NZT works on non-humans. Hopefully, should that be the case, the whateveritisasaurus will be too distracted inventing civilization to kill too many people.]

I think we're going to have to agree to disagree on that.

[George doesn't bother to whisper. If there's anything out there to hear them, it can hear whispering as well.]

I suspect it would be best to keep moving.

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[acertifieduser]

"Keep your voice down." [He calls back, even though George's logic is more probable than his own. Maybe it's the paranoia setting in or maybe that's just how Eddie is, but he starts crawling up alongside his warden so that he can speak even more quietly.] "Do you have a plan on how to get us out of here?"

[There's another screech from above and Eddie flinches instinctively. Then he grimaces at having flinched.] "The sooner the better."

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[19centconstable]

Indeed. We continue to the beach, which should be...

[George checks the position of the sun, and then points.]

...that way. If anything gets too unfriendly, I'll hit it with my truncheon. And perhaps you ought to get a big stick.

[thebestnose]

How did you know any of that about dinosaurs?

[19centconstable]

I read things.

[thebestnose]

There were Previous around when dinosaurs were?

[19centconstable]

We mostly just dug up their bones. But it's hard to imagine they just disappeared completely.