Andy sighed and sat on the bed. He reached down and pulled his computer from the backpack.<br/><br/>As he started it, he said, "I got a bit closer to a monster than I wanted to be. It had this lash that was a part of it's body, one of it's four arms. I was running away as fast as I could, and it caught me across the back with the lash. I guess I was lucky, if I'd been any slower, the barbs would have ripped me in half. Fortunately, these legs are good for running."<br/><br/>He showed her the screen, with pictures of the Hive Tyrant on it, the first a motivational poster. "Hive Tyrants. When you absolutely, positively have to kill everything on the field.' The second was a die cast model, third was a shot of the corpse he'd quickly made when he'd left to go on this mission. "Sorry I don't have any pictures of it when it was alive, but I was otherwise occupied in not dying."