“Youwould think so. But the dinosaur, if it was a dinosaur, disappearedalong with all the humans.”
Ifrowned. The job wasn’t getting any easier.
“Shucks.It’s difficult to solve a mystery when there aren’t anyclues.”
“Well,there’s one or two slender ones.” He reached over and tapped thereport with his finger. “However, the skeleton may tie in to pagenine.”
Ipicked up the booklet and skimmed to page nine.
“You’relooking at a reproduction of one of the few samples we have ofJardoval primitive art.”
Astridwalked around behind me so she could view it too. Page nine showedaman–barely more than a stick figure–being swallowed by a gigantic maw of teeth.
“Whenyou say primitive you really mean primitive,” I said.
“That’strue,” Astrid said. “A kindergarten student could dobetter.”
“Yes,he rea
