Alien- Bullets Cracking LW

 The creature lunges toward Kora. Delia responds by shoving her daughter away from the creature’s clashing jaws, grabbing a gun from the rubble of the cocoon. I realize with a pang that it’s Rockwell’s gun, the one I took from Alisa.

  Delia lines up the gun on the creature’s head, aiming for the place where the eyes should be, and she fires, again and again, cracking the chitin without breaking it. That, alone, is horrifying.

Echo, Chapter 21