Work Text:
It looked like a dinosaur. It had a narrow head full of very sharp teeth. Mal reckoned it planned to eat his face.
"Zoe...is that what I think it is?"
"Dinosaur, sir. Big damn dinosaur."
Next to Mal River murmured, "Dinosaur. Order Saurischia, Family Dromaeosauridae, Deinonychus antirrhopus."
The dinosaur's leg muscles bunched ominously. Mal shrugged and shot it. The dinosaur fell over with a keening noise and twitched a bit.
"He was obeying his biological imperatives," River said, with a reproachful look.
"Yeah, to eat us," Mal said. "I'm upset. I really am."
"Mmm," River said. "Velociraptors hunt in packs."