had brought. She named him Dan and started talking to him. This made her feel less lonely.
Fortunately, before sunset, she heard her dad’s voice in the distance, “Abby, where are you?” “I’m
here!” cried Abby. “It’s time to go home now. So, let’s go!” she whispered to Dan and put him in
her bag. She couldn’t leave her friend behind.
Abby kept Dan secretly under her bed. The dinosaur grew bigger and was growing very fast.
It seemed Dan became bigger every minute. Soon, there was not enough food for him. Dan got
hungrier and hungrier. One day, the hungry Dan looked at Abby with a real dinosaur-like face
and jumped to Abby, trying to eat her! “No Dan! No! No, boy!” cried Abby. Dan got closer and
closer. Soon Dan was ready to gulp Abby up.
“Hey dino, shoo!” Abby’s dad came to the rescue! Abby’s mom handed a bottle to her dad. He
cursed on Dan and pointed the bottle at Dan. Poof! Dan was scooped in the bottle, smaller and
smaller it got and finally fitted inside the bottle.
They brought the bottle back to the Gobi Desert and hid it deep under layers of sand. Then
Abby asked, “Will Dan die? He was my only friend in the desert when I was lost. Even though
he tried to hurt me, please don’t kill him!” “He won’t die but he doesn’t belong here. We just hope
nobody will find him and release him,” replied her dad.
On the way back home, Abby kept on asking her parents why they knew how to trap the
dinosaur in a bottle. They looked at each other and smiled, “there are lots of secrets in the Gobi
Desert.” Abby was wondering what would happen to Dan later on. Would Dan die? What if
someone found Dan?
