Rage War Incursion 19

"I know what you said," Palant whispered. For that moment everything else pulled away from her, to an impossible distance that made space seem like home. McIlveen, McMahon, the survivors, the ruined base, every moment in her history and everyone she had ever known, they all became nothing in the face of her first encounter with a living creature from another world.

"I... know... what..." Wendigo growled in sickening mimicry... and then the world exploded.

Laser blasts streaked in, screaming from the loader's chassis, knocking the Yautja back and down and peppering the wall ten yards away.

The alien's shoulder blaster fired, missing Palant by inches where she had huddled down against the old vehicle's tracks. She felt the heat singe her hair and stretch the skin on her hands
and cheek, and the loader's cab disintegrated in a shower of shards and molten metal.-pg.255 chpt.21