Dinosaur Summer
“"No sense being reckless. Let's walk around."The causeway made for easy hiking, level and almost as smooth as a gravel road. They rounded the first corner. "It isn't square," Ray observed."A pentagon, or hexagon?" Peter suggested."Pentagon, maybe--or irregular."Beyond the second corner, the forest opened up into hummocky grassland, dotted with low, flat mounds each about fifty feet across and made of the same irregular mud bricks. Long elevated dikes connected the small mounds with the central ...step pyramid. Ray climbed over the first dike, about five feet high, and Peter followed--then froze at the sight of a bootprint."Did you step over here?" he asked Ray."No.""Somebody did.""Billie?""He wore sandals.""Maybe OBie or your father, then."Peter smiled broadly. "Yeah! They're probably around here doing just what we're doing--trying to see where they are, and how to get back."They walked on to the next dike and found more prints in the finer patches of gravel and grit. "Looks like one pair of boots to me," Ray said.MoreLess
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