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- The air has grown so thin that sounds are dimmed. The lab tech at the back of the hose train faints, and his unconscious body tumbles toward the breach. One of the creatures snatches him out of midair, sinking its teeth deep into the fatty tissue around his thigh.
- ***
- Mercifully, she does, until they hear a loud thump on the outside of the airlock. Everyone shrieks except Dorian and Marcus. They calmly peer outside through the porthole. Dorian expects to see a piece of debris, or maybe one of the escape pods, but comes face-to-face with a black skull and knife-sharp teeth, visible through the thick glass. It pulls back and butts the airlock again, to no avail.
- More screams.
- “Don’t worry,” Marcus says. “That’s twelve inches of unbreakable carbon crystal with a very small diameter. It could withstand a direct hit from a starship.
- ***
- Alien: The Cold Forge, Chapter 17
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