At least twenty feet across and twenty feet high, it wasn’t as small as he’d expected, nor as small as Jessica had expected, from the look on her face. He reached over and pushed under her chin, shutting her mouth. “Bigger. Much bigger,” she whispered. The pod breathed. It had a heartbeat—actually, heartbeats. If he knocked a hole in it, would big, wormlike things slitter out? Every horrific science-fiction creature he could think of from his teenage-horror-movie days slinked through his head and reminded him why he was a scientist and not a freaking combat officer. Combat officers lived for this stuff. He’d rather run from it and study it under a microscope. “Should we shoot it?” “I don’t know, sir.” Jessica continued to eye the hive. “The outer shell on that nest is thick. I don’t think shooting it is going to do anything, but it has a hole that vents the heat to the outside. I saw it on the smaller one. On the top.” “Oh, hell.” And what made her think climbing on the thing was a good idea?
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