“No…” Jess said quietly as he saw the state of the girl’s chest wounds. “What did that? Did something attack her?”
He quickly checked the ship’s scanners. No sign of any danger. Not nearby, at least.
“No,” Dash said solemnly. “Something probably pierced the escape capsule. It would have been small but moving very fast. It must have hit a weak point in the structure. Once it got inside it couldn’t punch out again, so it ricocheted around in there until it ran out of energy.”
“I can’t see any hole.”
“You won’t. Escape Capsules have a limited ability to self seal in those situations. I’ve seen it happen before.”
“Are you sure? It looks more like something ripped its way out of her. Or several somethings.”
Jess shivered at the image in his mind.
“If that happened then where
