[Aliens 02] - Nightmare Asylum

by Steve Perry - (ebook by Undead)

  Billie turned and looked. A woman stood there. Tall, thin, hair chopped short, wearing shipper’s coveralls.

  “Do we know you?” Wilks said.

  “I don’t think we’ve met before,” the woman said.

  But Billie recognized the face. It took a few seconds to remember where she’d seen her before. It had been back on the station, in the communications room. She’d been on one of the old ’casts.

  “Ripley,” Billie said. “You’re Ripley.”

  The woman gave them a brief, small smile. “That’s right.”

  “You’re supposed to be dead,” Billie said.

  “From what I hear, so are you two. The universe is just full of surprises, isn’t it?” She grinned again, a little larger.

  “Damned if that ain’t so,” Wilks said.

  “I think we have a few things in common,” Ripley said. “Maybe we ought to sit down and talk.”

  It was Billie’s turn to smile now. “I think maybe you’re right,” she said. Ripley was right, after all:

  The universe was just full of surprises.

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