On Sun, 8 Jun 1997, Jorge A. Pratt wrote:

Trying to get over a little writer's block on Lightbirds, I came up
with the following idea...

	(Somebody shoot me for this...)

[...]

	Shampoo tried to escape, to get out. The bullet impacts kept getting
closer. Closer. Shampoo desperately clawed around. A muffled impact; she
vaguely felt something large and cold enter her belly. Before passing
out, her last thought was, "Airen..."

Bullets are HOT on impact. You stop something moving fast via an elastic
impact and the energy has to go somewhere: heat. People wearing a
bulletproof vest can get burned if the vest stops a high caliber
bullet. 

Other than that, an interesting idea.

-- 
Benjamin Franz