Thanks heaps, Ari! :D Haha, yeah I shortened it to Prota too in my notes, but since then I've come up with a name: it's still pending and I'm writing in third person (which is a change for me). I've decided to call Prota, Elena. I haven't written for a few days because of a course, here's a snippet, and an earlier line that I thought I'd share:
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“Whoa,†Thames cried. “A real dinosaur!â€
“No, dear,†Roseanne chuckled. “That’s a robot. Real dinosaurs are extinct.â€
“Just as well,†Fred came up beside the group, joining them to witness the extraordinary sight. “’Cause we don’t wanna live in a real Jurassic Park.â€
“A robot?†Elena managed. “It’s a robot?â€
“A brachiosaurus robot, if I’m not mistaken,†Harry breathed. He adjusted his glasses and was staring at the dinosaurs as if they were aliens. The Rileys tittered again at their shock.
“It’s not called the Jurassic Set for nothing,†said Fred.
The Jurassic Set. The words reverberated in Elena’s mind, not fully sinking in. Here she was, looking at dinosaurs! They may not have been real, biological dinosaurs, but they were there all the same. Life-size, moving…
breathing, she noticed upon closer examination.
“So they’re just… there?†Tristan asked blankly.
“Like moving statues, really. We get a few of them up by our windows some mornings.†Roseanne watched the dinosaurs as though they were really a sight you didn’t get used to, a spectacular one.
“They filmed all those dinosaur movies here,†Fred pointed out. “You see that river down by the trees? That’s where that famous scene with the tyrannosaurus…â€
“Your windows?†Elena asked Roseanne, as Fred began an animated discussion to the boys about dinosaur movies.
Roseanne nodded. “Look.â€
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“At least I don’t have a stupid name,†Harry shot back [at Thames], unperturbed. “I was named after the most famous
wizard in Britain, and you were named after the most famous river in Britain.â€
:P