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- “It’s been a week,” Kambili says. “Maybe we could, like, go back to plan A. Try to find praepotens inside the body of the face-hugger. We’ve got ultrasound and microsurgical—”
- Blue shakes her head. “You know that won’t work. We melted our extraction tools last time, and we don’t have any more spares. Plus, we never found a decent concentration.” The pathogen won’t concentrate without a live victim. The noxhydria has to be aroused, and the greater the fear, the more of the praepotens it will pull together for payload injection. She imagines securing one of the chimps over an egg with some mechanism to catch the face-hugger’s slithering pharynx and milk it when it attacks. It’d frighten the shit out of the chimp, for sure.
- In their own ecosystem, would the adult snatchers try to help face-huggers propagate the pathogen? Blue imagines them restraining the victim somehow, and wishes she had more information on the behavioral patterns of the creatures. She doesn’t even know where they’re from.
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- Alien: The Cold Forge, Chapter 4
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