Chapter 6: The first of many terrors

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FLASHBACK
Villa Raptor, Strada Comunale del Cartman, 48, Colle della Maddalena - Superga (Turin), Italy, 7 months before the events of Isla Nublar.

The bedroom door creaked open as the sunlight was partially blocked through the forest-colored curtains, illuminating the room with a delicate paleness.

<<Darling... your father is waiting for you downstairs for breakfast... >>
The soft voice of the man outside the door roused the young girl from her thoughts and she sat up lazily.

<<Tell Dad I'll be down soon! >>
The young woman replied, getting up from the bed while wearing funny and furry shark-shaped slippers.

She slowly walked down the stairs, rubbing her eyes tiredly.

The house's curtains had been specially changed to partially block the sunlight so that the young woman could walk around the house without having to smear herself with sunscreen.

<<Good morning... >>
She said, sitting at the table, pouring a drop of coffee into her cup of milk depicting dinosaurs taken from the Tiger shop the last time she visited the Maria Vittoria Hospital.

Moreno Raptor, the girl's father, was a handsome man in his 40s, tall, with dark brown hair and almost amber hazel eyes. He graduated with honors in paleontology from the Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna and became a member of the S.P.I. (Italian Paleontological Society) only a few years before the birth of her daughter.

<<Next month I will have to leave for work... I told your father that as soon as you finish the school year you will join me with him... >>
The father declared as he folded the newspaper and placed it on the table to look at his daughter's happy expression, hidden behind her favorite cup.

<<Where?>>
Her daughter asked curiously, tapping her toes on the floor in excitement.

<<Darling, don't give any spoilers!>>
The paleontologist husband said, walking down the stairs as he buttoned up a sand-colored jacket and adjusted his brown glasses before heading to work.

Amadeus Raptor, the young girl's natural father, was a man of around 43, slightly taller than his partner, with blond hair and crystal blue eyes. Having graduated from Harvard University as a geneticist, he then moved to Italy after falling in love with the great Roman history and meeting Moreno on a business trip.

<<Come on!>>
The little girl snorted, putting the cup down and crossing her arms over her chest.
<<Don't leave me alone!>>

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FLASHBACK
Base ***, Northwest, Isla Nublar, 2 hours before the Indominux-Rex escaped.

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The first light of dawn filtered through the opaque windows as the girl nervously chewed her thumbnail, still in her pajamas and lying on the mattress of her small private cabin on the base as she stared at the ceiling.

The cabin didn't have much inside: a bed, a small desk a step away from the foot of the bed, a small wardrobe for his things placed next to the entrance and a bedside table placed next to the small window that looked onto a light barred wall where beyond lay undisturbed a herd of pachylosaurs that would soon be moved further south on the island.

But that cabin belonged to the girl, she didn't have to share it with anyone, a little gem of being the daughter of one of the paleontologists who supplied dinosaur bones to the park.

That night she woke up with a start due to a bad dream and from that moment on she had never been able to go back to sleep.

She had a bad feeling.

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