"Bc20" - читать интересную книгу автора (Niven Larry & Pournelle)

Aaron unbolted the door, and swung it open.
The air thickened with the blended stench of speed and scorched alien blood.
The interior of the dome was smeared with viscera. The smaller grendel was reduced almost to chunks. The larger had been ripped open. Her intestines spilled out in gray coils. She bit at them, snapping and chewing with a blunt, bloodied snout. She made crying sounds.
The grendel raised its head unsteadily, staring directly at Jessica.
Jessica raised her rifle and shot it once in the head with an explosive dart. With a short, sharp, ugly sound the grendel's head splashed open, spattering blood and brains for meters in every direction. The ruined body quivered once, and then was still.
Cadmann peered inside, and nodded in satisfaction. He slapped the outside of the dome.
"Every joint held," he said calmly. "This dome is officially pronounced grendel-proof."
Jessica bent over and vomited.