Cooper watches Rachel and Rickon all but fucking disappear and there's three of the little fuckers now, and Cooper is sick of running. He pushes to his feet, and the branch has got a decent heft to it. He swings it experimentally and very deliberately, he puts himself between them and Pepper.

The first one darts closer, and Cooper swings, hitting it solidly in the head. It hits a tree and stays still and Cooper's actually grinning when he lines up for the next one and...

And holy shit. He barely has time to react to the much bigger fucking dinosaur which is suddenly right there. He swings, but the branch gets ripped out of his hand and one of the little guys bites him high on his thigh and then his feet are off the floor. The back of his head hits a tree and that's pretty much the last thing that Cooper's aware of, after that.