Andrea was starting to worry when she spotted the soldiers.

"So you bastards finally decided to show up," she said, "thank God for that." There was only so much a diet of rainwater and adrenaline could do for a body, and forget about sleeping on the back of a rampaging dinosaur. This was her second day of trekking across the soaked landscape, and Andrea didn't think she could take much more.

The column of triceratops took shape through the downpour, big and armored and ...