HUGUEL_0568

Face the world's fiercest dinosaurs and make it back to the future in one piece! You're a physics student with a dream: travel back in time and document the world of dinosaurs. Can you survive the terrors of the Tyrannosaurus rex?

When you successfully convert your Land Rover into a working time machine, you set your sights on traveling to the age of the Tyrannosaurus rex, triceratops, and pterosaur where you'll study dinosaurs and film a thrilling documentary. The only problem is the competition: your rival and enemy Darien Vance has claimed your work for his own, accused you of plagiarism, and had you kicked out of graduate school. When you travel back in time, you'll have to prove you got there first, redeem your good name, and make it home safely.

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A couple of hours later, you groan in frustration. The cut-through proved to be elusive. Make that nonexistent. Sheer sandstone cliffs rise in front of you and on both sides. You'll have to retrace your route several miles out of this canyon and then follow the main river back to the big lake. "Nothing takes so long as a shortcut."


"We can still make it by noon," Brett says.


"Good thing." One way or another, you intend to be there when the time window is supposed to open. You need to see those shimmering orange lights appearing precisely as predicted by the temporal equations. You turn around and drive off like a…well, not quite like the proverbial bat out of hell, but perhaps like a mammal out of a theropod's clutches.


At 11:53 a.m., the launch site comes into view with the blue lake behind it. You dodge a sequoia with a diameter twice the length of your Land Rover and splash across the little stream at the shallow ford, pausing a few yards farther on to scrutinize the remnants of the pterosaurs' nest. Scavengers haven't left anything worth noting.


Brett cranes her neck to take in the Cretaceous sky. "Not a pterosaur in sight. Nor any troodontids."


"Excellent." You cautiously maneuver the Way Way Wayback Machine into the exact center of the abandoned nest. At this pivotal moment before switching to time-travel mode and engaging the flux navigator, before the distinctive orange shimmer envelops the Land Rover, what do you do?
