Gunfire sounded from outside the vault. She moved to the door and froze. From the warnings Sam had passed on from Urdli she knew what they might be, but had failed to imagine the horror of the half-insect, half-human things she saw swarming over the mercs. Before she could gather her magic three of the mercs were down, torn to pieces. She cut one thing down with a mana dart in time to save Julio from the creature’s attack, but the radio specialist was gutted almost instantly by another that crawled over the back of its dying fellow to strike at the merc.