Ice and Snow

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Panthera and Blu Tembo were riding on a man-made raft boat Mr. Cantillo made to survive. Panthera can't stand that disgusting hobo beard. She needed to get it off of him.

"Dad, that beard looks.....awful. You never had a beard as I remembered when I was young" Panthera detached the pointed spear as a dagger, "Chico, is there some shaving cream in your backpack? Por favor, for mi papá"

"I do have" Blu Tembo took out a can of shaving cream.

"Well, this will do," Mr. Cantillo said.

"Si, now hold still, dad. Mama wouldn't want to see a beard like that" Panthera said but did a little aggressively as a sign for nearly putting her and her family through a lot to think he's dead, "Mama would so be mad at you when she sees you're alive" She said with a little anger and shaved off that nasty thick beard with her spear dagger.

"Hey! Slow down! Ow!" Her father winced while he got shaved.

"I know what I'm doing. I'm the master of the blade" Panthera said.

Blu Tembo can see why Latina women like her can get feisty whenever someone does something to upset them easily. He snickered at her grumpiness. Soon he laughed seeing he had a stylish mustache and tied-up beard.

"What?!" Mr. Cantillo exclaims.

"Callete" Panthera shushed him and got every single beard off him, "Ahh...there's the face I remember. The face I haven't seen since...." She aggressively plucked the last beard trim.

"AY!" He winced.

".....leaving me and mi familia that day you mysteriously died" Panthera finished.

"Ow! I couldn't find out how I could return!" Mr. Cantillo said.

"I know. But we didn't know you were alive this whole time. My mother declared that you're dead" Panthera said, re-attaching her weapon back together.

"I wish I never left," Her father said.

"But I'm happy to see you're alive. Still, a lot to catch up on what you missed when the world changed" Panthera said.

While rowing the boat raft, they came across a herd of brachiosaurus looking at them. It mesmerized Blu Tembo at how big they are with flesh.

"Brachiosaurs. Plant eating dinosaurs" Mr. Cantillo said.

"Ja, Spännande att se dessa" Blu Tembo said in Swedish and some of the sauropods approached them.

"Being stuck down here wasn't a prison, mija. It also made me learn about the extinct creatures. Razor helped me survive" Mr. Cantillo referred to his kwami's name.

"That's right. And boy he taught me some Spanish" Razor said.

The majestic dinosaur bellowed at them. The humans waved at them and they kept paddling the boat through the river.

"I just hope Mariquita and Gatito found their way. I can't track with my superpower that far away" Panthera said.

"Try again. They have to be close" Blu Tembo said.

Panthera took a deep breath and tried again, "Track" Her spear glowed and her eyes glowed to get a binocular vision to find them. She soon saw the Neanderthal village and the two heroes sitting by the campfire.

Her eyes returned to normal purple, "We gotta get past the snow and it's very cold. They are at some kind of....Neanderthal village. They really do exist"

"They do? Incredible" Blu Tembo said.

"Let's keep moving," Panthera said.

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