Belle wished she could say she was surprised to see a giant crocodile blocking the path but after everything else they had seen thus far it was strangely fitting. The rest of the zoo was alive with noise and creatures she had only ever seen in illustrations - and the hieroglyphics that decorated some of the Egyptian artefacts she had seen in museums - so a crocodile, even if it had appeared where a crocodile most emphatically oughtn't to be, was not overly surprising.

What was shocking though was Miss MacKay's extraordinarily foolhardy offer.

"Surely there must be another way?" She asked incredulously. The girl had been level-headed thus far, probably more than the rest of them put together, but putting herself directly into danger was a ludicrous thing to do! "We're hardly in a position to help if you're not as fast as you think you are."

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Lady made me sexy <3