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39. Saga III 66MYA Pt III

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Recorders

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note. Incredible.

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Simply incredible. See, I

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can use different words other than wow each time,

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even if I have to work it a bit.

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Just when I think there can be nothing more amazing or mind-blowing

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as getting to see an alternate timeline to

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my own reality, we have this Osteem

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saga. I know we've only really

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just started at this point, but still, the

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evidence seems pretty conclusive. I,

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of course, had a dinosaur phase as a kid, and

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it lasted a good year or two. I didn't

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get enough of them, and then watching

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those Jurassic Park and Jurassic World

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films was just sheer delight. Although

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the first one remains the best, and most perfect

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in my opinion. Just like the first

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Star Wars, Episode 4, A New Hope,

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is the best I think. You can fight me on

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that if you want to. The only problem is, I

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won't be able to hear you, so... Haha.

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Anyway, I don't think any of us really talked

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about it. It's so much always going on, we've

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never had the chance, really. How far

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into the future can you actually go through an Osteem

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door? And, by the same token,

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how far back can you go? I'm

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sure we can spend days discussing it, and I can't

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wait to share this saga with them once Jake and Mum

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get back. I think I'd imagine you

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could only go as far back as the beginning of humanity.

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Now does that mean the Iron Age? The start

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of agriculture?

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Or back when we were less than homo sapiens? I

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don't know. Either said, I've never

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really thought that deeply about it as much as

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I've wanted to. Regardless,

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we now have irrefutable proof right here in

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this Osteem saga that you can go

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all the bloody way back to the freaking

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dinosaurs, like mammals were still

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small and relatively insignificant on

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the evolutionary family tree.

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Simply incredible.

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Also bloody scary. I'm anxious

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to find out how Armid fares in the land of the giant

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lizards, and also how this Osteem

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saga came

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to be. And final

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question, if you can go back in

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time some odd 66 million years

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or more, depending on what point in time of the

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dinosaurs' very long existence this is, on

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some mises you can go even further back

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in time, perhaps even to when life

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first began on planet Earth. Wouldn't

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that be an interesting conundrum to solve? Okay

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enough philosophizing, let's get back to Armid's

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story. Saga

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continues.

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This naturally added to my fear. More

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fuel for the fire if you will,

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I thought, and that sparked, yes,

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pun intended there as well, I suppose,

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an

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idea. The

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time I forced myself

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to accept the predicament I now found myself

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in, and to work on keeping me alive

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for as long as possible, because

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if there was anything I knew about this dangerous time,

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it was that there were many, many, oh

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so many things that could kill me, wanted

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to kill me,

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and why should I help any of them by neglecting the

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basics of keeping one's body alive?

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I needed to find water, food and shelter,

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ideally in that order, and also create

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fire as that would help improve the situation

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of those three basics of survival.

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I made myself push back through the trees once

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again, keeping as quiet as humanly

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possible. The dinosaur was

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very thankfully gone, while the creature

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it had been feeding from naturally remained.

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Also to my advantage there were no other creatures feeding

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off the carrion, yet

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I knew it would only be a matter of time.

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Forcing my courage to grow, I ran

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down the hill and drew close to the dead animal.

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There was a poignant smell of blood and meat,

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but not of decay or rancidness, meaning

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it was still relatively fresh. I

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thought I could handle that. Searching

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through some nearby rocks, I found one that

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looked to be made of layers. I grabbed

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another heavier round rock and began striking

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it at an angle. It gave off a sharp

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sound I thought was too loud, but had

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no choice. Soon the layered

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rock

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broke apart and I picked up a piece with

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a jagged edge. This would be my combination

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knife and saw. I began

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working at the meat with it until it cut away

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a good

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piece. Not

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too long later I had a fair amount that I had

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decided would fill my stomach for the day.

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My hands and arms were all bloody, as

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if I had murdered someone, but I just

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pretended I had slaughtered the creature myself and

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would now be consuming it for food. I

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then spoke the ritualistic prayer over the meat,

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even though I was unsure if Dinosaur could be

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considered a halal in any way. I'm

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not even sure if this question has ever been asked

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by anyone. I

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would not, under any circumstances, eat

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this raw meat. It was sacrilegious

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and I would be at risk of becoming extremely sick

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and possibly dying.

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Therefore I needed to make a fire to cook it

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thoroughly, and for that I needed shelter,

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because creating an open flame out here would be

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the equivalent of putting a massive target on me

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and inviting anything nearby with decent

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eyesight that can't make a meal out of me.