my beam had no effect on the thing , that horrible thing , that damn motherfucking face destroyer it was easily one and a half times my height , and would have appeared human at a distance but its two terrible arms one was a blade , like a scythe of flesh and bone , doubtless the thing that had impaled the scientists and the other arm had , instead of a hand , a needle , from the tip of which dripped a red liquid , like glowing blood .