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Chapter 17 - The Accident

It's just another ordinary day at the dig site. Everyone is outside doing their various duties. Some are cataloging what has been found thus far. Some are actually in the dirt using tools to carefully brush off dirt from small bones or very big ones. Their are backhoes making big pits for the archeologists to go through. One of the people digging in the dirt is Max Stone. He is the lead archeologist. Right now he is starting to feel a little frustrated. He has been searching for months without nothing new to add to the archeological records. His hope and dream is to find a new type of dinosaur. Just when he was about to give up, he suddenly finds the beginning of a full skeleton of a dinosaur. As he is brushing away the dirt he sees that the skeleton is starting to look like a t-rex except much smaller. At first he thinks it's a baby of an adult one. However the shape of the bones and the condition of them prove that they are from an adult. Max is getting really excited. He has made the discovery of a lifetime. Just as he is getting ready to go report his finding, he hears people screaming for him to hurry and get out of there. He looks up and sees a backhoe falling towards him. He really wants to run but his legs are frozen in place. Next thing he feels is pain and then nothing.

He finds himself floating or at least his consciousness is floating. He thinks to himself, Didn't I die? Is this heaven? Or is this Hades?

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