Saga Untold

Chapter 1: Dilo

Part 2

The compy pounced out onto the ground before scuttling off too fast for anyone to track, right for Thatch, who immediately scrambled back from what must have been a very scary blob of color indeed. Luckily, it wasn't really after him and quickly veered away, scrambling out through a small gap in the fence.

By this point, I was dying laughing on the ground and there was nothing hiding me from Sarco's murderous glare. “Dilo,” he growled, his voice tight and barely controlled.

“Hm?” I said innocently between giggles. Pearl finally came out of the shack and carried Thatch's glasses to him, who put them on and slowly got to his feet, dusting himself off.

“Oh you think that's funny do you?” Sarco snaps as he stalked towards me. I put a hand over my mouth to hide my grin. “You could have seriously hurt someone, you let a wild dinosaur into our camp, who knows that kind of diseases that thing might carry, not to mention you let it loose INSIDE of Thatch's workroom and it trashed the place and scare him half to death and bit Pearl, what if Pearl’s hand gets infected now? What will you have to say for yourself then? What do you have to say for yourself now?!” He of course didn't wait for me to answer, “you are so immature, when are you going to start taking things seriously, we are just barely starting to get by, this place is dangerous and I can not have you running around ruining things and…”

I was hardly listening to him as I continued to grin, but Thatch cut him off as he put a hand on his shoulder. “I don't think Dilo is going to cause our ultimate doom with one compy Sarco.” Sarco immediately whirled around to glare at Thatch.

“You always take her side and look what she did to you! It's not just this, it's everything, the pranks, the running off in the night or whenever there's any kind of important work to do. It was tolerable at first but now it's getting too much.” It was never tolerable, it was always too much. Sarco finally managed to take a breath right when I was starting to think he might pass out. I raised an eyebrow at him in response and he threw up his hands in exasperation. “Why am I even wasting my breath,” he huffed before stalking away. Pearl shook her head as she watched him go before turning to me and pinning me with a piercing blue gaze.

“If it were up to me,” she said with her irritatingly smooth high voice, “you would have been outed long ago, you're a liability Dilo, and one day it'll come back to bite you.”

“Ooo,” I said with a fake concerned look, “really Pearl. Like that little bite on your hand?” Pearl rolled her eyes before turning and leaving the same way Sarco did. I gave her a little wave to send her off with.

After a pause, Thatch turned to me, his face a lot calmer than the others. “That wasn't cool Dilo,” Thatch finally said, giving me a playful punch in the shoulder.

I gave him a grin, “I was just giving you a wake up call because I was concerned for you, you missed dinner last night and breakfast.”

“Right,” Thatch said with a slight smile, “just concerned for my well being,” I nodded in confirmation. “Well I'll be concerned for you too, Sarco isn't happy and he isn't going to let this slide.”

I shrugged, “Sarco doesn't scare me.” I scoffed.

“Yeah I know, not much does,” Thatch said with a soft smile, “but do me a favor, no more wild dinosaurs in my workroom.” I gave him an innocent smile and nodded.

“Of course not,” I said.

“How did you manage to catch that thing anyway?” Thatch asked once he was finally satisfied with my answer. Very pleased with myself, I launched into an elaborate tale of my latest escapades.