Chapter 10

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10| Art of Chill

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10| Art of Chill. I must have failed art then.

(Song playing: Symphony)

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I shove a stick of gum in my mouth. I'm at the back of the group, since I was walking slowly, and cautiously. We are currently looking for somewhere to stay, and I've so far heard three unidentified noises that Kenji says are just the wind.

I'm obsessing over a twig snapping when I trip over something, a stupid stick in the middle of the path, I throw it to the side, and hear it knock down something else.  A lot of somethings.

I look to the side to see a abandoned, what was most likely poorly built, fort, there's un-eaten berries laying on a leaf-plate, and a fire pit with scorched wood. There's compie tracks, and instead of them usually being scattered so you can see the separate compie tracks, they are all squished together, there was a lot, and they had run away fast.

“Y·N!” Kenji yells, and I don't answer. “Y·N, what are you—” he freezes when he sees what I'm looking at. “Y·N, Ben couldn't have scared of whatever made those tracks, he—”

“Compie tracks,” I interrupt, “Ben was scared of Compies. Ben also wouldn't touch wood from the wild, or leaves, or dirt.” I shift uncomfortably, realizing how many dinosaurs probably pooped on this ground, and suddenly, I want to sanitize the ground and use stilts. “So, you are correct,” I tell him, then point at the larger tracks I see, ones I couldn't identify, “there must've been someone else who didn't make it out on the boats, and the Compies most likely scared them, they screamed, and whatever that was ate them, also efficiently scaring away the Compies. ” I assume.

“It wasn't Ben.” I confirm, Kenji had been helping me look for Ben, and making sure so didn't have to take any nights shifts for lookout. “come on, before whatever was here comes back.”

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Me and Darious are up in a tree, each using binoculars for different reasons, though he doesn't know that. He thinks I'm looking for somewhere to stay, like him, when really I'm looking for any sign that Ben is alive. Or Ben. Either would be correct.

“What held you and Kenji up?” he suddenly asks, and I set down the binoculars, not knowing that because I did, I missed my chance to see the large, blue Anklysaurus in a clearing, before something scared it off.

I shrug, “Nothing.” I reply, and make up an excuse, “I had a shutdown. ” I lie.

“Is that what we're calling your major brain farts!?” Kenji calls up to us, and I nod, looking down at him.

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