Oh, come on. Who doesn’t love a story that has Taunt in it causing trouble like he always does?
I certainly can’t say no to such things, and even if I mostly prefer the more serious-toned stories, comedic ones are among my guilty pleasures. Even prior to starting to read, I already suspected that more than one thing would go wrong, but to see it happen like this, I did not expect. It goes without saying that primitive lifeforms and advanced alien technology don’t mix well together, and poor Taunt has been on the receiving end. Although, you could easily say that what goes around comes around, and that he’s the main reason this whole incident happened in the first place. However, like said in the story itself, there was fault on all sides. You can never be too careful in the presence of a jokester like Taunt.
For one I was happy to see that this story took place around the time when Taunt was still a part of Skytail’s pack. I missed those guys a lot and it saddens me that most of them are not even alive in the series at this point, excluding Taunt and Breeze, of course. I really feel like characters like them deserve to be showcased more, as their short-lived appearance in The Seven Hunters was just too short for my liking. It’s most curious that the devices the rainbowfaces use are often camouflaged as rocks or stones in your stories. I’m not saying that it doesn’t work. It actually fits quite nicely into the narrative in a world of dinosaurs. I love how Chronos and Logos are even making comparisons between Taunt, Littlefoot and his friends and all the other residents of the dinosaur world. Curiously, the reason for their being on Earth is exactly that; interest in the species limited, but innovative thinking.
More on that, I can’t be the only one to ponder whether they feel as strongly about this in the present moment as they did in the past. It’s obviously limited, but I quite liked how we learned new things about Chronos, Logos and the Consortium as a whole. Although Taunt’s memory was wiped of the incident, he can still recall it on some level. Albeit he doesn’t think of it as nothing more than a weird, scary sleep story, which is very fitting as that’s likely what most if not all dinosaurs would think. Instead of simply forgetting the whole incident, Chronos and Logos decide to use it as a learning point for their two children, which is something I found quite fitting. It’s also reminiscent of one of my older stories, so points for that small attention to detail. Briefly, I really liked this story and I believe it’s a worthy entry to the Summer Prompt Exchange. Well done, Rhombus!