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- The fall she’d just taken makes her tumble from the tree look like hopping out of bed. It would’ve easily killed a human being, but Marcus is tough, built from the same materials as high-performance vehicles. He bends, but he won’t break. At least, not from unfocused, blunt-force trauma.
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- It happens faster than she’d imagined, the palm of the spidery face-hugger smashing into her face, crushing her nose hard enough to make her eyes tear up. All lights wink out as its powerful phalanges lock to her skull. Its tail whips around her neck in the blink of an eye, tightening like a steel cable, trying to make her gasp. The second her lips part even a little, its slithering pharynx shoots between her teeth, painfully wedging her jaws apart.
- Conflicting instincts rage within her. One tells her to bite down, the other to gasp for air. Her hands fly to her face, desperate to tear the thing free, everything inside her screaming, You’ve made a mistake. But when she doesn’t lose consciousness, Blue remembers that she is the predator, and the noxhydria is her quarry.
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- Alien: The Cold Forge, Chapter 19
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