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Ferra’s Dream

Chapter 27

Racheal turned to look at Dark. “You don’t have to come with me,” She told him. Dark blinked then rubbed his head affectionately against her face. She had tried to release him back into the wild before, but he had refused to leave her. Racheal sighed, secretly relieved that he wouldn’t be leaving her. Although she knew it was wrong to think that.

She looked past Dark and at the small wood cabin she had managed to build. He watched as she walked into the cabin. She left the door open, Dark watched her intently. Racheal walked up to the only bookshelf she had and grabbed several books. She then proceeded to walk out of the cabin and up to Dark. Dark stood still as she carefully placed the books into the saddle bags that hung from either side of his saddle. After loading all the books into the saddle bags, she quickly ran back inside and grabbed a couple more things. Racheal walked up to Dark who patiently awaited her. “Ready to go bud?” She asked before easily mounting his saddle.

For a moment, she remembered the horse riding lessons she had been taking, before she ended up here. If it weren’t for those lessons, riding dinosaurs probably would have been a lot harder. She gently kicked Dark’s side and he sped off. Towering above everything, up in the sky you could see the green obelisk. She steered Dark in that direction, with full knowledge of which paths were the safest and which were not.

They slowed to a stop as they reached the terminal under the green obelisk. Haroh waited there with only a handful of men and several bigger dinos.

There was an obvious tension between them, and she was concerned as to why. “What’s going on Haroh?” She asked as Dark strode closer to him. Haroh looked up from cleaning his sword. “We’re going to slay a beast today malady” he told her. She looked at him skeptically, “We were going to travel to a new ark today” She reminded him. “There’s been a change of plans,” he replied simply. “You know how it works, all the strongest beasts must be slain before we are permitted travel.” He explained. Racheal was slightly irritated “You told me they’d all been killed” Haroh put his sword away and walked up to her and Dark. He stroked the side of Darks neck. Dark flinched away and growled softly, only Racheal heard it. Haroh shrugged, “I figured you’d like the chance to witness such a glorious event” he replied.

Racheal huffed, she didn’t want to watch them kill anything. From what she’d researched, these apex predators probably just lie around waiting for some idiot humans to wander in and be their next meal.

She looked around and noticed Haroh’s men watching her intently. Haroh looked up at her expectantly. They’re not going to let me leave, she determined. For some reason Haroh was always desperate to impress her. “Fine” she sighed.

She moved Dark over away from the terminal and carefully dismounted. As she began to walk away, she heard Dark squawk from behind, she turned to look at him. He tilted his head with what looked like a concerned expression. “I’ll be back in a little bit” she called back to him. She continued walking toward the terminal.

“Got any spare armor?” She asked as she approached Haroh. He looked her up and down for a moment. He probably thought she should be in a pretty dress instead of some clunky metal armor. He waved his hand and one of his men walked up. Racheal made no effort to learn their names, her business was not with them. She also couldn’t tell them apart when they were dressed head to toe in flak. The man handed her a full set of flak armor, minus the helmet. She didn’t like helmets anyway. She quickly put the armor on. She could see most of Haroh’s men making an effort to look away, although Haroh himself didn’t seem to care.

Once she had the armor on, she asked Haroh for a mount “May I borrow one of your mounts? I wouldn’t want to be left defenseless” she found that she tended to get more out of Haroh when she acted helpless. Haroh began to open his mouth, probably to say something along the lines of ‘Don’t worry, you’ll have me to protect you’ but he seemed to think better of it and whistled over one of the yutys. “You May ride my personal steed” he said as the yuty stopped beside him.

She walked over to the yuty and patted its side. Underneath its thick fur, she could feel its strong bulky muscles. It made sense that this one was the one Haroh had selected to ride into battle. With just a glance around the area, she could tell this one was the strongest and most confident of all of them. A wave of sadness hit her, she felt bad for the animal. It had been bred and raised to kill, and if it failed to do so, it would be killed. It knew nothing but that.

Some of Haroh’s men walked up, probably to help her mount the yuty. She huffed and grabbed onto the yutys fur. It only took her a moment to heave herself onto the saddle.

Cya

Meow,

-WhiteWinterTiger