Written in Bones [ Jurassic World]

Noteworthy

Owen was heading to the raptor paddock after grabbing a quick lunch when he saw Lily on one of her tours. He looked at his watch before deciding that he had some time to spare. He walked over and stood in the back behind some parents. Smaller children were in the front as she stood in front of a hologram of a triceratops.

"Now while they look intimidating, these are very docile dinosaurs. They hardly go looking for trouble."

"Then why do they have those horns?"

"For defense. If anyone was to come pester these guys, they would use these horns normally locking them with whomever they were fighting and they would just wrestle until their opponent gave up."

"Or beat them!" a little boy chimed in.

"Well, not many dinosaurs would bother with these guys unless they were looking for a fight. These are the largest of the horned dinosaurs and with that title comes some respect. You wouldn't want to go challenge of herd of these guys. But you know they have to grow into these horns. When they hatch, their horns are nothing but nubs, but as they grow so do their horns. And this part here, is called the frill..."

The little ones stood in awe.  She moved back allowing them to run their hands through the hologram.

Lily smiled as two little boys placed their fingers up on their heads to resemble horns and began to imitate part of her lecture. 

"You are quite entertaining." She jumped as Owen appeared beside her.

"Thank you." she breathed composing herself. "What are you doing here?" she asked raising a breath.

"I came to learn."

She rolled her eyes. "Sorry, the tour is over sir." she smiled before walking off. He trotted up beside her.

"Can I get a private tour one day?" he asked waggling his brows holding open the door for her.

"That'll cost you extra." she said poking his stomach.

"She's not as big as the others...not even close and this wing, is....so much smaller compared to the other one." Lily frowned as she sat with the young Pterandon that she had first witness hatch when she arrived at the island.

"Stunted growth." Winston told her.

"It happens sometimes." Dr. Wu said. "Some times, they don't develop properly when the embryo is inserted into the egg."

"What will happen with it? " she asked looking to Winston and Dr. Wu. Winston gave her a look that made her wish she didn't ask.

"You're going to kill it aren't you?" she asked.

"We can't release it into the Aviary," Dr. Wu said, "it would never survive. It's so much smaller than the others and it wouldn't be able to fly. The others would see it's weakness and probably kill it."

"But it's just  a baby." she said softly.

"We can't let our feelings get in the way.' Dr. Wu said before leaving.

Lily grumbled.

"Don't listen to Wu," Winston said, " he has a stick up his ass most days."

"But he's right, you guys are going to put him down."

"It's out of my hands, Lily. I wish we had a section of the island where our less fortunate ones could go, but this is just the humane thing to do."

She flinched slightly as the Pteranodon bit down on her finger but she only looked down to the young dinosaur sadly.