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Posted by: privet caboose
Halo: Cryptum: pg 277:
The cell contained, in temporal suspension, a genuine monster: a large creature with an overall anatomy like a grossly misshapen human, though possessed of four upper limbs, two degenerate legs, and an almost indescribably ugly head - a head shaped remarkably like that of an ancient arthropod seeded long ago on a number of planets, presumably by the Precursors, and known by some as a eurypterid. A sea scorpion.
Oval, faceted, slanted eyes bumped up from the front of it's low, flat "face." And from the rear of it's head, a long, segmented tail descended the spine, ending in a wicked barb two meters in length.
Huh. I see. I suspected it might be a combination of the two, but I didn't (And still haven't) read the actual book so I wasn't sure.