Good Mother is the fifth chapter in the Sixth Configuration. Maiasaurs appear and an interest event transpires. Harding aims to get the electrical-powered Explorers so the survivors can reach the helicopter pad.
Plot[]
Continuing from the events of the last chapter, six Maiasaurs appear, big brown duckbills fifteen feet high, with curving snouts and Richard Levine didn't believe the are present on the island, wondering why they just appeared. They group around the jeep and start to tear it apart, especially the canvas top and the roll bar. Levine continues to remark this behavior is not characteristic of their species, Hadrosaurs . The jeep is tipped over and two Styrofoam cases drop out. As the maiasaurs now chop away those cases, Levine still wonders what they are up to wonders if it is a 'dinosaur catnip.' Suddenly, an infant pops out of one and the adults slow their actions, now honk at each other. The infant moves slowly and then flopped down, while a second came out. As Sarah Harding sighs, the two infants are picked up by individual adults, the maiasaurs scan the area, honk the leave. Harding and and Jack Thorne agree that they don't need to worry about fuel, since the jeep is totally wrecked.
While Thorne remarks the jeep was never meant to face the weight of those dinosaurs, and Levine snorts, Thorne suddenly mentions their "own car" and Harding recalls the Explorer. Thorne initially says it is short-circuited when he tried to rescue her and Ian Malcolm then after a short argument, Harding thinks the short circuit can be fixed and learns its exact last location. Thorne and Levine are doubtful she can reach it and rest the vehicle when she radios. Harding has again encountered now six velociraptors then she breaks up, there are raptor snarls and the transmission ends. Kelly Curtis, Arby Benton and Malcolm are now sleeping with Thorne trying to reach Harding. Finally, her voice, albeit broken in phrases is heard again. She finally communicates normally and asks Thorne to help her fix the car. Levine says they have twenty minutes left.
Note[]
These maiasaurs are definitely those rescuing the two eggs the Biosyn group stole in the seventeenth chapter in the Fourth Configuration.
Trivia[]
The chapter title is a reflection of the meaning of the name of Maiasaura, ie., 'Good Mother Lizard'.
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