"Are any of them more interesting than visiting real dinosaurs?" Mathias asks, having a hard time believing there's anything else on the island that can even compare to what they're going to see. Maybe he'll find a job or a place to work, but he isn't good at much of anything beyond being a mechanical engineer and he doesn't think they'll have much use for that on the island.

"What do people do here?" he asks curiously. "Is there work?"