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Tyrannosaurus Rex
by J.F. Rivkin
PROLOGUE
Kuluene district, Matto Grosso State, August 18,

Cheeky,

Success! What I have to tell you is so wondrous that I, who have seen it,
doubt my own senses. In this uncharted land, near the banks of the
Kuluene River, we have found an ancient city. The treasures it contains
will change the very foundations of the way we understand the world.

Lest you think me delirious with fever, let me tell you, briefly, what has
happened. Whilst traveling down the Kuliseu River, we encountered the
Yanomani, a fierce tribe of Indians who inhabit these parts. They told us
stories of a great and holy place, where spirits dwelt. They refused to take
us until Jack managed to cure one of the chief's sons of fever with our
stock of quinine (we haven't a tablet left).

The chief, Izarari, then agreed to act as guide. After a long journey by
boat, we arrived. The people who built this city were plainly of Mayan
heritage. Everywhere are great stelae, tombs, and temples, all ornately
carved with the symbols we have seen on so many Mayan constructions.
This is the first time we have seen evidence that the Mayans came so far
into South America.

At the center of the city is a massive temple, pyramidal in shape, and
within, a single pentagonal room, ten meters across. On four of the five
corners is a shelf, and on each shelf rests a human skull made, not of bone,
but of some sort of crystal.

And now, I come to the portion of the story which transcends the
boundaries of our mundane world and reaches into that unknown
territory we call the supernatural.

In the temple our servant, Cuyaba, who has remained with us
throughout this long journey, clapped his hands together to kill one of the
hordes of stinging flies that infest this country. Before the sound had died
away, he vanished completelyтАФutterlyтАФas though he had never been! I
need hardly explain our astonishment.

We looked in vain for some sort of trapdoor, crawling on our knees to