Alien- Corroded Dome

  There’s a hole in the dome.

  The gate we came through is still closed, but it doesn’t matter, because there’s a hole in the dome. Eight feet across, with irregular, melted edges, like something has burned through the supposedly unbreachable plastic.

  Something with acid for blood, maybe. Something that already knew there was life beyond that barrier, life and hosts for its gestating young. Something fast, and hungry, and smart enough, in its own alien way, to figure out that all it had to do to get inside was create a weak spot where none had previously existed.

Echo, Chapter 19