Upon hearing no answer, Markus unsteadily got to his feet, wincing as his spine cracked at the movement. His shock gave way to slight terror as he beheld himself as a swimmer, utterly baffled at his sudden transformation. "What the...?" He held up a saurian hand to his face, fascinated yet terrified at the same time.
"How could this possibly happen?" he wondered aloud, glancing about his suroundings before returning his gaze to his new form. "Not only am I in a world with dinosaurs, I AM one!" Another thought made him cringe slightly in fear. "But...can I return to a human form?"
The thought of being stuck in a form that, as interesting and cool as it was, was not his own drove a deep stake of fear into his heart. Markus struggled to keep calm, trying to reason his way through his situation. "OK, let's think about this. How do people transform?" His mind immediately wandered to science fiction, the only place he'd ever seen such transformations occur. "If I'm some sort of shapeshifter, then I can probably change back into my human form by thinking about it."
The thought sounded ridiculously easy, but, seeing no alternatives, Markus decided to give it a try. Closing his eyes, he thought of his human self, belatedly hoping he had clothes on. Opening his eyes, he gasped in surprise that he had indeed returned to his normal form. He was no longer a tall, red swimmer, and now appeared to be a regular human in his late teens. He tenatively ran a slightly tan-skinned hand through his short, dark hair, looking down at himself to find he was even wearing the jeans and white T-shirt he had last been wearing.
The transformation relieved Markus to no end, but other questions barraged his mind before he could relax. "I've got to be on some kind of drugs, or dead or something!" he thought to himself as he looked out at his surroundings. "I mean, how can all this be real? How did I get here? How can I transform? And most importantly," he added to himself. "what happened to my car?" The answerless questions tugged at his mind as he took another look around, noting that the dinosaurs he thought he had seen had already left.
"Well, I'm not gonna get any answers standing around here." he thought to himself, walking away from the waterfall through the brush. "Let's see where I've ended up..."