Alien- Shuttle Crash

  I’ve never seen anything move this fast. In an instant, I know that I’ve seen it before, as a blur on the screen before my father died: maybe not this specific creature, but one very much like it. I want to hate it, but I can’t find my way past my fear. This thing, it isn’t native to Zagreus, it isn’t supposed to be here. It came from space, it came from orbit, it …

  It came down on the shuttle. The one that crashed, the one that burned. This thing somehow survived on a biological survey ship that may or may not have been fully pressurized, that almost certainly lacked a dependable internal atmosphere, and it somehow then stayed alive through reentry and a crash that should have killed anything and everything on board. This thing is a nightmare and I’m awake, and I don’t want it.

Echo, Chapter 9