A jaw lined in razor-sharp teeth snapped at Quinn’s head and he rolled and propelled himself forward with synthetic ankles. The carnotaur parents were trying to box him in. They had taken both flanks, and as they ran at speed, kept lunging in, less on the hopes of biting him than of spooking him into swerving toward the other. The juvenile hung back—wat…
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