- It's a stranger! Realizing this, Vincent Di'Stefano unwittingly recoiled. "How the hell did it get here in the aft command compartment?" Vinnie forced himself to stop and stared in surprise at the grotesque creature. Someone else's eyes looked huge, completely disproportionate on an elongated ugly head. A narrow elliptical iris seemed to embrace the lens, as if pointing to its foreign, unearthly origin. The creature blinked, and its clear eyelids twitched so quickly that Winnie would not have been able to say whether this movement began from above, below, or even from all sides. In fact, not in the movement of the eyelid could not be considered in principle. The creature quickly blinked again - once, another, a third - then turned its head...