Snatcher - Outspeeds Marcus

  Blue launches from her crouched position like a sprinter off the blocks, hurtling toward the open vent shaft. More metallic screams of rage join the first ones, rising in pitch with each of her footfalls. If she’d been going too slow in the central strut, she was going too fast now. Marcus’s powerful, limber body is difficult for any mere mortal to control. She’s never gone full-tilt inside him before.

  Three yards to the open duct. There’s a loud bang behind her as one of them hits the floor. Did it leap or drop from the ceiling? She ducks her head as the creature’s skeletal tail snaps in the air above her.

  Two yards to the open duct. She sinks lower, preparing to leap. They’re closing in on her, and they’re impossibly fast. She expects to feel their cold claws sink into her back, to rend her asunder.


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Alien: The Cold Forge, Chapter 19