18130 Million Years Ago, ChinaGrip had been on the trail of the killers all night, roaming the screaming forest of nocturnal creatures in pitched battle by moonlight. Traveling by darkness had felt good, the cool night air reviving after the past two days of blazing heat.
The coolness lingered as the misty light of dawn filtered through the tall pines. Still fresh, still driven after hours on the hunt, Grip trotted through a stand of tall ferns...and came nose to nose with a two-legged meat-eating dinosaur.
She was big, about three times taller than Grip...the same size he imagined the killers would be. Her thick hide was covered in feathers of varying shades of green, perfect camouflage in the brush of the forest. Her enormous eyes were as yellow as egg yolks, her teeth and talons i
