Excerpt from "Reliquary" (a novel by Brandon Waltrip):
"Chapter 1: A splash of acid hits Jack’s chest. 'Aarrgghhh!!!' he cries out in pain, clenching his chest. He falls onto his side and rips off his fur tunic with trembling hands, smoke rising from his seared chest. Hyperventilating, he looks at a beehive that has fallen from a tree branch extended out over a vast desert chasm, with a river running through it. The hive just barely missed falling..."