No sprays of black filament and then the wounds closing like water.

There, clinging to the walls of glass that still stood, was a network of fine black filament.

The entrance and exit wounds spilled out fine loops of black filament, and the zombies went down.

Some of the black filament bursting from the exit wounds actually caught fire, disappearing with a flash.

Miller could see the words themselves like a dark smoke, coalescing into the spilling black filament of the protomolecule.

Black filaments of something like mist condensed, forming webs below her dangling guts.

Black filament-covered tendrils erupting from their eyes and mouths.

Black filaments sprayed out and across the room like a line drawing representation of blood splatter.

All around Holden, the black filaments spread, a dark spider's web with him at the center.

Each exit wound sprouted a spray of black filaments that fell onto the snow instead of blood.

Finding the scientist's lost little girl had stopped being the priority the instant they found the black filaments.

His imaginary Julie appeared across the room, but her eyes were dark, black filaments pouring down her cheeks like tears.

Needles of ice shot through Rex's chest as the winged slither struck, and a sudden tangle of black filaments seemed to clutch his heart.

"There's nothing below us that matters," Holden said, thinking of the remnants of black filament they'd seen in the hidden base.

"The OPA wants Ganymede even more than either inner planet does," Holden said, finally admitting the thing he'd feared since they'd found the black filament.