Volume 7 Chapter 12 (2/2)

”Yeah I like big animals”

”Big animals? Like whales?”

”Whales are alright But what I really want to see are dinosaurs”

Then heto happen,” and took another sip of the canned coffee

”So why do you coht?”

I kept asking, question after question His story keptmore

”To iine Like, when I look at this elephant, I think, okay, the stegosaurus was probably about this big Or when I see a giraffe, I think the brontosaurus probably moved its neck like this”

He also said that he'd occasionally go to construction sites because cranes and excavators gave him a sense of dinosaurs too But while they had the saood because they didn't have the sa flesh on the outside s too

”So you're not interested the in real thing, only a substitute?”

I said, a bit rudely But he smiled and answered

”I' too”

That's how I ca for fossils

”And me?”

I asked, spinning around after putting the e bin

”Huh?”

He asked in return

”When you look at me, are you reminded of a dinosaur?”

”Let's see A hypsilophodon, I guess A stegosaurus would be a bit bigger”

I felt a thrill, having never been compared to a dinosaur before I'd never met someone like this

”Thanks for the coffee”

He politely thanked me, then rose from the bench He sloalked over, and placed his can in the steel bin next to me

”See ya”

As I watched him walk away, my heart cried out, ”Wait!” He'd talked to me as we drank our cans of coffee, but I still wasn't satisfied

I wanted to know more

Things like his naht, about his favorite dinosaur too -

I thought, ”Next time, we'll have to a much more leisurely cup of coffee”