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of her eye she saw Ryja moving swiftly toward her. He pressed buttons on the black box as he moved next to her. Their shields merged and then he reached for her.
    Her legs were quaking and she took a step and fell to her knees, dragging Ryja with her. He flipped his body, landing on the bottom. “We're safe. They can't harm us in the shields."
    Rubbing her back, he seemed to be waiting for something, and after she calmed a smidgen, Amber realized it was for her to stop shaking. She stared at him. “Thanks for saving my butt from the hard ground."
    "Can't say it did me any good,” he groaned, but his mischievous grin told her he was kidding. “Better?” At her nod, he gave her a quick peck on the nose.
    Her trembling subsided, but Amber clutched his waist as the mammoth beast headed their way. “It seemed to be looking right at us."
    Sitting up, he pulled her to sit beside him. “We're just in his line of sight."
    Amber turned in his arms and gasped. Another T. Rex stood twitching its tail, its neck outstretched in a roar. They were directly between the two. “Can we move back,” she whispered. In spite of Ryja's assurances, she felt exposed.
    Standing up quickly, they walked backwards, and had only moved a few feet when the dinosaur nearest them charged. His large thigh brushed their shield and it spun in a circle, then backwards. It stopped after a few rotations and Amber stumbled, bringing Ryja down with her.
    This time she landed on her butt. She couldn't believe she'd fallen twice.
    A quick kiss to her mouth and he said, “At least we're out of their path now."
    Amber didn't care for his flippant attitude or his wide grin. Her heart was hammering against her ribs. Regardless of Ryja's confidence in the shield's invulnerability, it had appeared they were about to be trampled by a 12 foot monstrosity.
    While all these muddled thoughts were in her head, Ryja was sitting beside her, rubbing her back. Amber found she was relaxing. Was that all it took, a few back rubs from him?
    "Feel better?"
    She realized this was not the time to self-gripe about controlling her fear. Amber appreciated his gentle smile and nodded. The ground shaking roars drew their attention back to the dinosaurs. Ryja stood and drew her up beside him, keeping his arms about her waist.
    The T. Rexs’ were snapping at each other, roaring, and circling one another. So far it was a lot of aggressive display. Without warning, the larger dinosaur lunged at the other one, taking a bite out of its shoulder. It jumped back out of reach as the wounded Tyrannosaurus Rex snapped.
    The smaller one seemed more angry than hurt and ran at the bigger one, knocking it down. Immediately it jumped, gripping its larger opponent by the throat.
    Amber gasped, wondering if David was about to slay Goliath in the dinosaur world. But then the big T. Rex raked the smaller one's stomach with its long, clawed back feet.
    The severely wounded dinosaur released the other T.Rex's throat and shrieked in pain. The big beast jumped to its feet as if its bloody neck didn't hurt, and ripped his attackers wounded stomach. Long shreds of red meat was torn from its belly.
    Amber looked away, feeling sorry for the smaller dinosaur. She put her hands over her ears, trying to cut out its screams. Unexpectedly there was total quiet. She glanced at Ryja. She'd forgotten he could control noise, and even odors.
    "Better?"
    "Yes, thank you.” She knew he was recording the event, and she hoped she hadn't ruined it for him.
    "I'm going to beam us back."
    "I've messed up your report."
    "Don't be silly. I can come back later and record the whole fight."
    Amber turned and wrapped her arms around his waist. The push back was less
    stressful, maybe because she was clinging onto Ryja. Once back in the jump room, her legs felt like jelly. The experience with the warring T. Rexs’ had been terrifying and upsetting. She was startled by the abrupt appearance of the empty shield on the second pad. Amber