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surround it where there was no escape. With a rider, even that was extremely difficult. The rider could clear a path with his bow. This new Predator was faster than the others. It was a real danger. Andy continued to ride south for three weeks.
    Andy woke and looked off toward the forest where he saw a giant predator was peering out at the plain and wondered if he could kill one with an arrow. Where had he seen it? He shook his head and hoped he wouldn’t be forced to find out. He was now beyond where anyone had ever explored from the community. Most of the exploration had been done to the north where the majority of the other human communities had been discovered. According to the original Andy, the only thing located to the south was water. The ocean east of the community separated it from another large land mass a thousand miles away. The land the community was on ended in the ocean to the south. Andy decided to confirm whether that was true or not.
    Andy jumped on the saddle and Dinah raised her nose and looked toward the tree line to the right where he had seen the giant carnivore. She started moving away from it at a trot and after ten yards picked up speed. Andy looked over his shoulder and saw the head of one another new giant carnivore looking at them from between two trees. It was down wind and he realized they had been lucky to leave when they did. He made a decision to stay away from the tree lines from that point forward. Dinah didn’t smell that predator; she saw it when she straightened up. He heard a roar behind them and knew the giant was telling them that he would win the next time.
    Andy lifted his whistle and blew it. He watched the Giant, knowing it could hear it, even though it was silent to him. The giant abruptly turned and ran into the forest. Andy said, “Stop!” Dinah came to a stop and Andy stared at the place where the giant had been standing. Did it run from the sound of the whistle? He knew no one in the community had ever seen that species before. If it had been seen, it would have been reported. So why would it fear a whistle it could have never heard? He had to find out. He tapped Dinah with his left knee and she turned back toward the tree line. He had Dinah start walking parallel to it a hundred and fifty yards away and he had her keep her nose up. After twenty minutes she snorted. Andy looked into the forest a hundred yards in front of them and saw the tops of several trees were swaying while the others around them remained still.
    Dinah turned and looked at the forest’s edge behind them as she turned her body away from the tree line. Andy allowed her to start moving away but forced her to move slowly. He kept his attention on the tree line and then it happened. Two of the giant carnivores broke out of the trees running full speed at them. Dinah went to full speed and Andy watched the two predators start gaining on them before he blew the whistle. The two giants stopped so fast that one of them lost its footing and slid to the ground. Andy stopped Dinah and, though she showed her nervousness, she stood and trembled as the two predators ran back into the forest.
    Andy stared at them and knew that someone had trained them to fear the whistle. He looked across the plain and saw that the three horned dinosaurs were also moving away from them. Andy looked to the south and knew that something…or more likely, someone, was ahead of him. If these two new species feared them, that meant they had weapons capable of bringing them down. He decided he would have to start keeping a documentation of what he encountered. If something happened to him, he would send Dinah back to the community with it. He nudged Dinah with both knees and she showed her relief as she ran out into the plain and sprinted south. One thing he did know; whoever had trained those dinosaurs did not ride. Those predators did not recognize a dinosaur with a human on it. Andy began to wonder if he should move south out in the