Drabble: Exanimate

Cutter gazed down at the exanimate skull. He fingered the spikes and ridges thoughtfully.

"That's what we're up against is it?" asked Becker.

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The Elginia shied away from the loud bangs and backed into the sparkling light.

Its leg hurt.

"I said don't shoot!" The cry echoed through the anomaly.

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The wound festered. Days later, the wretched creature lay down by the river where it was drinking, too tired and hot to move again.

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The river rose. Silt washed over the body.

The fossil hunters came and the remains went to a museum.

Cutter gazed down at the exanimate skull.