Night fairies are pure demons. Their life has two stages. In the first stage, they are larvae that hatch from eggs.

After hatching, the larvae are no bigger than a hand. Externally, they have little in common with their later appearance. The body is clearly divided into segments. They look like oversized maggots with short tentacles at their rear end. They have a thick skin and feel like an orange in terms of firmness and structure.

The larvae stay close to where they were laid. They expect their mother to come and collect them. Only if this does not happen for a long time do they leave on their own. If they do, they look for a suitable shelter together and stay there until the larval stage is complete or until their mother does come to them. These are usually places with little wind. They are often hollows or enclosed caves. Sometimes the mother has already laid the eggs in such a place. If the mother collects them, she will carry them with her at the base of her tentacles and ensure that they are sufficiently nourished. She will nurse them, but that is the smallest part of it all.

The larvae eat a lot and everything they can get. There are no exceptions. Decaying meat, rotten fruit, poisonous mushrooms, they eat absolutely everything and if they can, they eat without stopping. The only limit to the amount they can eat is their own slow eating speed. Shortly after hatching a 500g steak can keep them busy for several hours, but even when they are bigger, they won't become much faster eaters.

The larvae eat a lot because they need a lot of energy. They go through a seeming metamorphosis. At no time do they pupate in a cocoon. The larval body is the cocoon. It is just a hull. The real night fairy grows inside. The duration of the larval stage is variable and depends on nutrition and genetics. Bones and organs can be felt to estimate the remaining time. The larva supplies the night fairy with oxygen via veins, but only partially with nutrients. The larvae have a navel. It was nourished by the egg yolk via this. The night fairy inside has no navel. It is not necessary. The larva grows and develops flesh. The night fairy inside eats it. The larva is not a living being in its own right. The night fairy eats itself. It is special meat with everything its better body needs to grow up quickly.

Regardless of nutrition, the larval stage will not last longer than 3 months from hatching. If the nutrition was insufficient, the night fairy will be less developed. Visually, you will hardly notice any differences. But it will be smaller. It may be less intelligent. It may have organ defects. It may die early.

At the end of the larval stage, the night fairy breaks out of its larval body and sheds it. The upper body of the new night fairy looks like that of a girl at the beginning of puberty. The lower body is covered all around with 10-12 tentacles. At this point, the night fairy is about the size of a bucket of water and it will continue to grow, but it will never look older.

Within 2-4 months, the upper body will reach a height of up to 0.8 meters. The tentacles can grow up to 1.4 meters long in the same time. They continue to grow throughout their lives, but at an increasingly slower rate. The tentacles are much stronger than the delicate upper body. They are full of muscles and have enough strength to break bones with strangulation pressure alone. The tentacles also make night fairies good swimmers, but they usually stay on land, or rather in the air. After breaking out of the larval shell, they float.

The mother already begins to teach her offspring when they are still in the larval stage. What she teaches them and how long she does it for is also variable, but on average the education does not last longer than 2 years. There can be one of two reasons why this is the case. The mother dies or the offspring is already superior to the mother.

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The intelligence and abilities of night fairies vary. On average, they are as intelligent as a child of 12, but they can also be more intelligent. In any case, they are intelligent enough to speak and have an excellent memory. Even at the end of their lives, they can still remember sounds they heard as larvae in the egg.

If the education ends because the mother dies, it is often because she has reached the end of her life. According to estimates, night fairies only reach an average lifespan of 8 years. One of the reasons for this is that they do not get enough food as larvae. The maximum lifespan that would be possible under ideal conditions is not known.

Night fairies spend the majority of their lives preparing for the rearing of their offspring. They look for good partners, good laying sites, prepare food and much more. They spend the rest of their lives rearing their offspring. Night fairies are solitary beings. If you do see several together, it is always mother and daughters.

Simple night fairies live in caves in earth or stone. Night fairies of higher intelligence often live in self-built tree houses or huts. Sometimes they keep animals to feed on. If you meet a night fairy in nature, it is likely to behave in a childlike, innocent and submissive manner. In all likelihood, they will speak the local language. They often ask politely for food or protection. Sometimes they offer you a gift in return. Sometimes they cry. You should not fall for them. This behavior is learned and only an act. Night fairies have nothing of value. The gift is just a smile or, in the worst case, their body if you fulfill their expectations.

When it comes to reproduction, night fairies are more than strange and one of the most unusual beings there is.

Night fairies are always female, but can still reproduce.

There are other beings that are always female. This is the case with species of lizards, insects, snails, worms and others. These living beings engage in unisexual reproduction, which is known as virgin birth. In virgin birth, an egg cell is tricked by hormones into developing even though it has not been fertilized. The advantage is that the living being can produce offspring more easily. The disadvantage is that the offspring is genetically similar or identical to the mother.

The differences to the mother can have two causes. During the formation of egg cells, the genetic information of many living beings is shuffled in advance. This mixing is part of a process known as meiosis. Examples of virgin birht with meiosis are honeybees and lovebirds. Examples of virgin birth without meiosis are some lizards and some butterflies. However, both variants of virgin birth lead to a relatively low genetic diversity within the species and thus to a low adaptability of that species. The other cause of deviations from the mother are random mutations, but these are on average rather disadvantageous.

Virgin birth can also lead to disadvantageous mutations becoming established within a species because they are not filtered out by mates and because genetic information is not combined. Each species has only a limited habitat that it can fill. If the habitat is filled with disadvantageous mutations, then it is filled. These can also be mutations that do not affect the daily survival of individuals, but do affect the long-term survival of the species as a whole, such as an intolerance to substances of certain plants that are accessible but are only potential food. If the plants that are food are displaced by the other plants, then the entire species could become extinct due to a single mutation. In order to minimize the risks, virgin birth is only an option for many beings.

Night fairies are mammals. There is no mammal that can reproduce naturally by virgin birth and nocturnal fairies can't really do it either.

In addition to virgin birth, there are also beings that are hermaphrodites, such as many plants, snails and worms. There are two groups of hermaphrodites. The first group changes sex in the course of life. Usually it changes from male to female, as in the clownfish. Sometimes it also changes from female to male, as in the parrotfish. The hermaphrodites of this first group cannot reproduce alone and there are two sexes within each species at the same time. The second group are hermaphrodites, which are true hermaphrodites, like the earthworm. Every earthworm can fertilize itself. However, even true hermaphrodites usually prefer to mate with a conspecific in order to create genetic diversity.

Night fairies are mammals. There is no mammal that can fertilize itself naturally and night fairies can't really do it either.

Night fairies are always female and cannot reproduce on their own. Despite all this, there are probably no male specimens.

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