She shut the locker as softly as possible, desperately trying to not alert the rest of her team. They were all out braving the beginnings of a truly violent arctic storm and were at their most vulnerable, just like she promised they'd be.
They wouldn't all die, only the slowest ones would. It didn't like to chase its prey which had been her only saving grace when she found it fully thawed in the main laboratory. That morning it had been little more than a vague shape buried deep in block of ice yet somehow it had freed itself and given her an offer she couldn't refuse.
Them for her - enough meat to satisfy it for a good few days, allowing her to study it (and hopefully dissect it before it felt hungry again). She didn't even consider negotiating, too busy staring into its open mouth and the countless rows of heavily serrated teeth.
A scream filled the air before cutting off with a sickeningly wet crunch.
They wouldn't all die, only the slowest ones would. It didn't like to chase its prey which had been her only saving grace when she found it fully thawed in the main laboratory. That morning it had been little more than a vague shape buried deep in block of ice yet somehow it had freed itself and given her an offer she couldn't refuse.
Them for her - enough meat to satisfy it for a good few days, allowing her to study it (and hopefully dissect it before it felt hungry again). She didn't even consider negotiating, too busy staring into its open mouth and the countless rows of heavily serrated teeth.
A scream filled the air before cutting off with a sickeningly wet crunch.
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