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Roger heard it from more than two dozen yards ahead. Startled, he craned his neck around to peer over his bouncing shoulder ... and realized Savanna was no longer behind him.
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She spotted Clara"s purse, first. Then Savanna saw the monstrous shape of the spinosaur, hunkering down over something on the ground. Feeding.
But Clara Bonner was still alive.
And Savanna found herself snatching up the woman"s spilled purse and dashing through its contents frantically. An instant later she found what she was looking for, and grasping several syringes all in one hand, she charged at the sail-back—driving them into its right eye.
The monster reared back immediately, howling at the sky, the gleaming hypodermic needles protruding from its ruptured red iris. Savanna darted in as it
