Predator Cold War 5

The room was sweltering hot, of course, despite the biting cold outside the station. This heat radiated off the main boiler in waves of rippling air. The metal sides of the boiler were too hot to touch-new workers arriving at the station sometimes put themselves in the infirmary with second-degree burns while discovering this.

Galyshev had been working in Assyma for years; he would no more have touched the boiler than he would have thrust his bare hand into live coals. It took him a moment, therefore, to realize that he really did see three big, man-shaped creatures leaning
up against the boiler, their backs pressed tight to the unbearably hot metal.-pg.351 chpt.14

And they weren't human at all, he realized. Not only could they press up against metal heated to 120 degrees Celsius without being burned, but they were huge, their skin was yellowish, their nails black and hard and pointed, like claws. They wore strange metal masks that hid their faces completely, while elsewhere much of their inhuman flesh was exposed. They not only weren't burned, they seemed to relish the heat.-pg.352 chpt.13