" Mandy?" No." Mindy?" No." He thought for a moment, then asked me what my name was. I told him thetruth."Barbi Dell Winston." Eww! That's such a girl...' name! Why didn't you call yourself somethingcool?" Like what?" I asked. He was starting to get me agitated, so I got the rockout and hid it in my hand."I dunno. Something like Diamond Patterson maybe. At least that sounds like arock star." Well, to tell you the truth, I was caught off guard yesterday, and that wasthe first name off the top of. Or maybe the copy machine wasprogrammed to add those fossils into the geologic strata. For a world thatmay only be a couple hundred years old, you can find fossils everywhere." Now that's ridiculous! Why would these scientists put fake fossils into acopy of a world?" Ann asked."Bait." Bait?" Certainly," Sue said. "What better way to lure a time traveler into thetrap than by giving him the hope of seeing thunder lizards in the flesh? Iwould expect every time traveler to make at least one trip. The objective was a kind of pit with some sort of monster in the bottom. We weren't sure what to expect, so when we came to it, we were damned careful. I tossed a stone down into the pit and nothing happened, but a lot of sand gave way when the stone hit the wall of the pit. It looked to us like anything that fell into that pit was not going to climb out because the sand was just too loose. Whatever the monster was, it was hiding in the loose sand at the bottom of the pit. The strange odor. .. and to congratulate the winner!" The elderly senator smiled wanly, and the picture slowly faded out, while another took its place."Here he comes now! He's coming now!" The announcer's voice spoke hysterically. The sound of cheering had already come thundering through and was filling the microphones and a throng of hundreds danced up and down at the downtown Cassidy headquarters.Finally Tim Cassidy and his entourage could be seen advancing toward the bank of microphones. His wife Sylvie was.