Richard was pinned against the far wall. His dry suit was in ribbons. The monster’s central mouth—a vertical slit running the length of its belly—had opened. And Richard Mann was being pulled into it. Not swallowed whole. Split open. The creature’s inner jaws extended like a second skull, cracking his ribcage outward with a sound like breaking kindling.
But sometimes, when she closes her eyes, she still sees that vertical mouth opening. Still hears the wet, splintering sound of a man being split open by a monster. Bella Bare -- Richard Mann Split Open by Monster C...
He kissed her forehead. “Where’s your sense of adventure, Bare?” Richard was pinned against the far wall
Bella held the rope that fed into his harness. She watched him disappear—first his shoulders, then his helmet, then the last bubble of his regulator. The rope went slack, then taut, then slack again. And Richard Mann was being pulled into it