        It clearly hadn’t come from a creature the size of the alien, which was somewhat worrying for two reasons: first, that there was some kind of creature where the alien came from that had claws this size; second, that the alien had somehow managed to get and break one of them.  It made him wonder just how powerful they were.  Moreover, why had it brought such things?  Was it a message that it was easily able to kill him?  Perhaps some kind of trophy—these are the things I have killed; show me what you have killed so that we might treat as equals?