24. Truce

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Kenji ran back into the visitor's center. He took a big stick and slammed it onto the vending machine. Eventually, all of the shiny coins fell out of it. He took them and put it in his pocket. Along with the coins, came his twenty year old stale chips bag. He ran back outside, finding us using the tools we have to hit the Compies. He threw his quarters and made them go far away to get them. "Good thinking," I complimented, "Now lift, before they come back!" All four of us tried lifting the truck high enough for the blue raptor to be able to move and get out. After a few seconds, the raptor got out. She snarled at us. Darius stood in a weird stance and stood still.

"Easy, Blue." The raptor backed her head away after he named her that. "Yeah. You like that nickname, don't you?"

"Bro, what are you doing?" Kenji tried to move Darius, but Yaz stopped him.

"Easy. You know me. You've seen me before." The teen and the raptor started moving closer. Darius stood still waiting to see what Blue's decision's going to be. Either she would chomp his hand off, or forget about him. But, to his surprise, he felt scales on his hand. He opened his eyes and saw that the female raptor placed her snout on his hand. After a while, she ran back into her home. He turned back and looked at us. "What?"

I was about to say something, but Kenji beat me to it, "YOU TOUCHED A FREAKING VELOCIRAPTOR!" I gave the same shocked look as Kenji did.

Darius agreed, "Yeah. That was pretty cool."

Kenji disagreed, "No! No, it was NOT cool! What if you failed? She would've come after US after finishing YOU!"

I tried to reason, "Kenji, if she really wanted to eat us, she would've killed Darius after we freed her."

"I'll try to be more careful next time," Darius reassured, "It's just that..." We waited for him to continue. "Never mind."

Yaz said, "Okay, let's head back to the boat. We'll check in with Ben to see if the boat is doing good, and then we'll go back to camp and pack supplies for the trip." We agreed and started walking back.

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