[ knock it out... heh. not quite what keith was thinking, but he takes his glance around the corner and yep. there it is. the shape of it is just humanoid enough to be disconcerting. it's no wonder these fucking things have been having a field day with getting close to people. keith ducks back around to answer chris' question, keeping his voice low. ]

Wasn't gonna try for anything fancy. Just keep it from moving around too much. While it's down, try and sever the spinal cord. [ a beat. ] Take off a limb or two if necessary. These things don't die easily, so.

[ painting a real grisly picture here, but neither of them are civilians. ]

If I can't get it to stop flailing in half a minute, I'll get out the way so you can shoot it in the head. That sound reasonable to you or you think that's not worth trying?