Dinosaur Adventures Part 3: Diplodocus

A loud ringing noise carried across the room. The alarm clock was a merciless reminder to the sleeping children wrapped in their warm duvets that it was time to get up.

Alex was the first to stir. At the foot of the bed, his duvet was completely flat — that’s where Meg had lain her head last night. The rest of her body probably slept on the carpet, he thought, looking around.

But Meg had vanished. That in itself was a little strange. You see, Meg wasn’t a rabbit or a parrot, or even a cat or a dog. Meg was a giant, good-natured dinosaur. And creatures that big can’t just disappear like that... or can they?

Tinka was also disappointed that Meg was nowhere in sight. But after she and Alex were dressed and about to run downstairs to the kitchen, they suddenly felt a warm gust of wind, and tiny grains of sand tickled their eyes.

Meg appeared! No one would have ever guessed, but the portal between the world of dinosaurs and the world of humans was located right in the middle of the playground.

“Alex, Tinka, please, do you have something for a fever?” Meg cooed. They looked her over from head to toe, but she didn’t seem to be sick. On the contrary, she was wagging her tail happily (but ever so subtly, so as not to break the wardrobe or the bed — again).

“Well, we’ll have to ask our mum,” Alex blurted out. “Do you have a fever?”

“I don’t, but Dolly does,” Meg answered, looking worried. “Dolly’s sneezing all the time, her snout is all stuffed up, and she’s burning hot…”

“Alex, Tinka, where are you? And why are you stomping around up there?” their mum…