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e that Kelanie had to mentally play it back at half
speed later, to catch what had happened...
The only thing Kelanie could compare it to was the scene in John
Carpenter's remake of `The Thing', where the alien had split down
the middle and bitten someone's head off... Mark (or whatever it
was) leaned forward in his seat slightly, his cute behind split
like a pair of huge jaws, and then clamped down on Alannah's
foot. Kelanie's eyes widened as saw rows of serrated
shark-teeth sink into Alannah's leg. The Princess of Inka paused
in 's lecture as Alannah shrieked in agony, writhing in 's seat
as the Mark-Thing's rear mouth chewed its way up 's shin. It
seemed to have almost doubled in size, a head the size of a
toilet-bowl perched on shoulders almost two metres wide. It got
out of its seat, waddling awkwardly towards the door, dragging
Alannah by the leg. After a few moments, the screams had faded
and the lecture continued.
* * * * *
After the lecture, kelanie dropped in to the Suteriik to grab a
snack, and found the Mark-Thing sitting at a table, daintily
eating one of those little Fruch
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