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In and then Out of Milliways: Christine mentioned things dropped in a vent, and Spoon went to help. 'Cause that's what you do for friends. And that's why he's stumbling back into the bar with a really abashed looking Predator (insomuch as Predators can manage the expression) behind him making sure the door closes all the way. She's got most of a remarkably dead body with her.

Spoon is butt-ass naked and carting the head with him. He's also missing rather a lot of bones. Like the front third or so of his ribs, his entire lower jaw, and several fingers. All the soft flesh has grown back, at least?

...Face it, he looks like shite and Christine looks like a Predator, and the two of them are carrying a large, dead Xenomorph.

Anyone who can get past that might notice in a non-horrified and panicked and/or offended part of their brain that Spoon's got a reverse-acid-burn of scar-free flesh

((With, uh. Bonus fixed headlinkage.))

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[taishar_malkier]

If that's not Shadowspawn, part of Lan's mind notes clinically, then it's something very like it; he can sense no taint, but there's nothing natural in those scales and rows of teeth, like an unholy cross between Worms and some of the Blight's other twisted creatures. And that person with Spoon may be just as untainted, but it looks nothing like human.

More immediate, since the creature is dead and the other isn't offering anyone harm, is the fact that Spoon should not be alive.

(And is his body growing back as Lan watches?)

His eyes have widened in visible shock, a rare occurrence, and his hand dropped to sword hilt. If Spoon weren't already surrounded by people, Lan would go over -- but he is, and so Lan doesn't.

Only watches through narrowed eyes, and notices who Spoon talks to and how, and notices the way his bones bulge and solidify beneath the fresh skin.