At first, it looks like the Lanky is completely covered in brown dirt as it emerges, but as it finishes ridding itself of its cover, its body remains the same shade as the slope behind it, a pale brown instead of eggshell white. She takes in all these details in the two or three seconds between the emergence of the creature and the gunfire that erupts from half a dozen rifles as Echo and Foxtrot teams open up on it.
