Alien by patryk-garrett on DeviantArt.com
Thud. Click. Thud. Click. Thud.
Time is a snapshot as the emergency lights flash.
Red. Black. Red. Black.
Blood pools on the floor, a shadow creeping along the walls, slick and dangerous.
She’d slipped in it earlier. Ensign Cade had grunted when she landed on him. The sound escaped from the gaping maw that had been his throat.
A creeping shadow gnawed at the edges of the smiling wound. Laughing.
Thud. Click. Thud. Click. Thud.
Her blood pounds in her ears, contained, and behind her the beast follows.
A shadow passes the mouth of the corridor.
Thud. Click. Thud.
“Kill.”
