"Hello, son." His father's voice was shocked. "Your mother is all right." He paused. "Where did you.... How did you...?"
"You mean the animals?" Johnny asked, rather enjoying the effect he was making. "Oh, they're friends of mine. You can let us in. They won't hurt anybody. I'm bringing a present to pay for Baba and make up for all the harm we did. Look." He took a packet of the claws and opened it. He let a handful of the claws run out of one hand into the other in a shining blue waterfall. Through the microphone he could hear his father and the other men gasp.
"Come in here quick," Frederick Watson's voice came back over the loudspeaker.
"Open the gates, please," Johnny repeated.
"But the rhinosaur! And the leopard!"
"They're friends of mine. They brought me here. They won't hurt anybody. I promise."
The big steel gate slowly opened. Riding on the back of one of the greatly feared rhinosaurs, Johnny entered the colony.