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first worry about having too much weight disappeared. Dinah was magnificent. He said go and the Cursor trotted toward the south. Harmony held on to Andy and felt both fear and amazement at the dinosaur they were riding. She worried that she had run away only to return and die at the hands of the Destroyers. But he was right, choices were not something she possessed any longer.

Chapter Three
    N ight was falling and Andy looked around the plain ahead. He saw a group of the three horned Dinosaurs ahead and he slowed Dinah to a walk. The huge herbivores were starting to settle down and were lying on the ground with one of them still standing guard. “What are you doing?”
    “I’m trying to find a place where we can bed down for the night.”
    “Tell me what you’re thinking; I need to learn how you do things.”
    “I’m looking at the tops of the trees to each side of the plain. We are downwind from those horned horrors.”
    “They’re called Triceratops.”
    “What?”
    “That’s what the original colonists called them.”
    “They’ve been around that long?”
    “They’re pretty much everywhere along the southern coast.”
    “Southern coast?”
    “The ocean beyond those cliffs ends in about a hundred miles and the land moves around its southern shore.”
    “We’ve been told that the ocean separates the land with the cliffs from the lands to the east.”
    “That’s not accurate. It’s from the lands to the East that the Destroyers come. Now what are you looking for?”
    “I want to move upwind from those…what do you call them?”
    “Triceratops.”
    “Ok, anyway, I want to move up wind from them and settle down.”
    “Tell me why?”
    “Dinah has a keen sense of smell. She’ll know if anything is approaching us from the south.”
    Harmony nodded, “And anything coming from the north would have to pass those Triceratops in order to get to us.”
    “Now you have it.”
    “What if the wind shifts from out of the north?”
    “Dinah will smell the Triceratops and wake me. We’ll then move to the south of them.”
    “Are you sure about this?”
    “You can stay up and see. Personally, I have to get some rest.”
    “Are you going to give me my rifle back?”
    Andy stared at Harmony and sighed, “I’ll give it to you when we stop.” He paused, “I think you should know that Dinah will not follow anyone’s orders but mine.”
    “You’re worried I might shoot you and try to escape with her?”
    “The thought has crossed my mind but you’d be dead within a day without us. Dinah would probably be dead with you. I think I can use you more as an ally against the carnivores than dead weight I’m carrying around. I’m certain I can use your knowledge when I find the Destroyers.”
    “I really wish you would forget about going there.”
    Andy nudged Dinah with his left knee and she made a wide circle around the resting Triceratops. And brought her to a halt two hundred yards south of them and dismounted. Harmony started to jump off but Andy stopped her. “What?”
    “This might not be far enough.” Andy raised his hand to his mouth and Dinah started grazing. The huge horned guards standing next to the other Triceratops started moving their way until Dinah lowered her head and started grazing. Its small brain recognized that she wasn’t a predator; they didn’t eat grass. It snorted and backed up to the group on the ground. Andy said, “I think we’ll be alright here.” Harmony slid down to the ground and Andy took one of the rifles off one of the clips and handed it to Harmony. He pulled one of the belts with the metal objects on it and handed it to her as well.
    “Are you going to take it from me in the morning?”
    “No, being unarmed out here is not something I’d do to anyone. I’m going to have to trust that you see your survival hangs on my wellbeing.”
    “Your survival is precarious at best if you’re going to go anywhere near a Destroyer Hunting Team.”
    “We’ll see.