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in a horror movie,” said Linden. “Okay, that’s close enough. We’re going to have to skirt the thing to check out the radiation ... I don’t like it being here. Maybe we can just get the necessary readings—”
    The thing moved with lightning speed.
    In less than a second, it had thrashed its way onto its feet. The heads moved in amazing synchrony, swiveling around, both sets of eyes leveling fiercely upon the exploration team. Those eyes were pure red, pupilless, seeming to flare like a double set of glimpses into hell.
    “Get back, Alex!” Linden cried as he jerked his rifle up to eye level, aiming,
    But his companion seemed frozen in her tracks.
    Linden pumped a round into the beast’s chest. Flesh and blood spurted, but it only seemed to madden the monster. It lunged forward, straight for Alexandra.
    Linden fired again, wildly, running at an opposite angle in hopes of distracting the allosaur, but his shot missed.
    However, the explosion did bring Alexandra to her senses. Her training had her gun in her hand instantly, and she fired two blasts into the dinosaur before trying to run away from the thing.
    But it was too late.
    The allosaur took an incredible leap into the air. It landed just meters from her, and dipped down with one of its heads, even as another rifle shot from Linden slammed into its larger tail.
    Alexandra screamed as she saw the thing’s jaws close down on her.
    There was a loud snap as teeth crushed bones and human blood gushed from the allosaur’s mouth.
    “No!” cried Timothy Linden,
    He fired the last of his ammo into the beast’s neck, still in shock over what he’d witnessed. The death of his lover ... the end of his companion ... It was too much to take.
    The allosaur jerked about with his new sting of pain, and its pair of heads seemed to have a single mind. A severed arm and a hank of blond hair hung from one set of jaws; the other set snapped in Linden’s direction.
    He threw down his rifle and pulled out his handgun. The allosaur was already advancing as he fired at one of the beast’s heads, but only grazed the skull.
    The allosaur charged on toward him.
    Desperately Timothy Linden ran for the cover of the rocks. On fire with adrenaline, he did not even think this was where the radiation emanated. He became a soldier, retreating for survival.
    The rocks formed a crevice and instinctively Linden ran for this cover. The allosaur snarled as it bore down upon him. Linden took a moment to fire into one of its eyes, rupturing it. The allosaur roared with pain, halting for a moment and digging with a claw as though to pluck the bullet from its extra head.
    Linden seized the opportunity, to retreat farther into the crevice, into the shadows, back-first, watching the great wounded beast that wished to kill him. Blood trickled from the ruined eye as the allosaur jumped after him, just able to squeeze its large body into the crevice.
    Again, Linden fired into the wounded head, and didn’t wait to see what damage he’d done. He moved back farther into the dimness, sensing an emptiness.
    The cry of the allosaur echoed into the darkness behind him.
    A cave!
    It was some sort of small cave—protection enough, surely, from this aberration. Linden ducked into the small opening, moved back into darkness, away from the allosaur,
    The creature knew he was there, no doubt about that. It could smell him still. But there was no way now it could get at him. All to the good ... at least for the time being.
    Linden leaned against a cool wall and rested, letting the reality of his situation sink in. The place was curiously dry for a cave, and Linden sensed it went farther back, which meant there might be another exit. He could wait here for a while—he knew that the beast wouldn’t linger long at the entrance—or he could try another way out.
    The former method seemed the safest. But then, as he sat there, his grief for Alexandra began to build to a point past bearing. No, he thought. Better to