They say you can't smell in that state, but Yuri smelled it long before contact. Sure she heard the Chuff...Chuff... of its breath like a small steam engine and the click of its killing claws against the bulkhead, saw malevolent eyes with slits down the middle hover disembodied in the dark, occasionally snapped over by quivering nictating membranes...But first was the smell. Like a slaughterhouse filled with nothing but racks of human armpits. It made her gag and wince and stumble as much as her... read more
