Larvae often leave a trail of mucus when crawling. In general, their bodies are very slimy. Mucus oozes out of all openings when you press on them. Most of the associated glands are between the last three segments of their body. The larvae do not need the mucus for movement. It is sexual secretion. All glands are connected to the sexual organ of the night fairy. The larvae sometimes spread this secretion very excessively. The larvae cannot sweat. Their skin is unsuitable for this. Instead, they control their moisture balance and body temperature by releasing the secretion. The larvae eat a lot, which is why they "sweat" a lot. But there is also another reason.
The secretion contains sexual pheromones. They are not those of the night fairy. They are copies of sexual pheromones from other beings. A larva senses these with special antennae and copies them as best it can. The larva cannot do this spontaneously. It takes several days to adapt its body to a different composition of sexual secretions. It is also not an active decision to adopt a particular smell. It is an instinct of the larva to know which odors to copy.
The secretion is produced and spread by the larva to attract prey. The larva is probably in its lair, together with its egg sisters that do the same.
An approaching living being has little chance of detecting this trap before it is too late. The larvae have no odor of their own. In addition to the pheromones, the secretion also contains other substances. A psychoactive substance with hallucinogenic properties is present in one of the highest quantities. This substance evaporates slowly from the secretion. When inhaled, the effect is intoxicating and aphrodisiac. After inhalation, a being will usually be very positively disposed towards other beings and will voluntarily mate with the larvae.
If the secretion is absorbed directly into the body, temporary paralysis can occur. The secretion contains an unnamed toxin that interferes with the transmission of nerve impulses to the muscles. Under certain circumstances, paralysis can also occur during mating. If paralysis occurs, the larvae will attack their defenseless victim. They will mate with their victim and feed on it. The larvae have a small mouth with flat teeth and jaws for tearing, like some insects. Due to the size of the larvae, it can take several days for the victim to die, even if there are several larvae. The victim is usually in a dazed state during this time.
A slow cessation of paralysis is not a reason why the larvae would stop. The larvae can continually renew the paralysis and do it automatically because they release more secretion during digestion to keep their body temperature down, which gets into the wounds when they feed, thereby getting more toxin into the victim. There are various reasons why a victim might still be able to escape. The larvae may still be too small and take a long time to feed. The victim builds up resistance quickly enough to move out of the perimeter, which is why the larvae will let it go. Sometimes the victim will die nevertheless because the mother is guarding the lair.
In contrast to the larva, the night fairy sweats and its sweat has an odor, but this odor is also only a copy of another. Even with this smell, it is not an active, but rather a subconscious decision by the night fairy to adopt this particular smell. In this case too, a changeover takes several days.
Adult night fairies often lose a fine purple dust from their tentacles as they float. The dust is light as a feather and disperses almost automatically in the air. It is only visible to humans in the immediate vicinity of the tentacles. At a greater distance of up to one meter from the night fairy, it can at most be recognized as a faint glitter. This dust is produced by special pulsters at the base of the tentacles. From an anatomical point of view, these belong to the sexual organ of the night fairy. At this point, you may already have an idea of where the journey is heading... Adult night fairies spread their sexual secretions in the air. The pulsters in the body are connected to the secretion glands of their sexual organ.
The effect of the substances is significantly weakened as a gas, but still present. In the vicinity of a night fairy, simply put, you are drugged. Over time, the amount ingested increases and so does the effect. Perception and the ability to assess the situation become increasingly impaired. A night fairy communicates with humans because she wants you to get close to her and then she will stall for time until you reach the point where you may still know that you should run away, but you won't do it anymore. From then on, you will follow its instructions and do so with a smile. In contrast to the larva, the real night fairy eats very little. You may be lucky and she will only take your possessions, but she may do so more than once. There have been cases where someone has escaped from a night fairy, but later returned to her to bring her "gifts". Such gifts included tableware, furniture and farm animals. In one case it was the own children. The secretion and the dust are both addictive.
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It should be mentioned that night fairies themselves are highly resistant to many poisons, especially toxins, and generally to many substances that affect consciousness. These substances range from drugs, such as painkillers and narcotics, to harmless things like caffeine and alcohol.
The resistance applies particularly to the larvae. The larvae cannot become intoxicated through the natural absorption of alcohol. The larvae cannot suffer organ damage either. It would actually be more correct to say that the night fairy growing inside can only suffer reduced organ damage. The larval body is like a filter. It is a protective shell. The night fairy grows organs and the larval body has its own organs. The nervous system of the night fairy is not yet fully developed. The larva has its own nervous system.
The larvae can neither see nor hear. They move only by smell, taste and touch. The larvae have receptors for pain, but their nervous system can only process these and other signals to a limited extent and will even block signals if they interfere with an important process. The larvae feel exhaustion and fatigue, but when they are feeding, their nervous system will keep this to itself. The larvae spend most of their time eating. They never sleep. At most they rest. The night fairy sleeps. The larvae have no memory. The night fairy has the memory. For the night fairy, the larval body is a disposable body that is no longer needed at the end of the larval stage.
You could say that you can't tranquilize the larvae with a tranquilizer gun because they are simply too stupid for it.
With the real night fairy it is different, but even with her the gun may not work. Night fairies have cells that are only there to neutralize substances that affect the functioning of their metabolism. If substances are known to their body, they have a reduced to no effect, regardless of the type of effect. Treating a night fairy with medication may not be possible or may be more difficult. Generally night fairies also build up resistance more quickly than other living beings. What happens in the larval stage is decisive for resistance. If the larvae eat many poisonous fungi, then the night fairy will have a high resistance to the toxins of these fungi.
So a night fairy may not be able to be treated for an illness, but it doesn't get sick easily anyway.
Bacteria invade tissue and multiply there and or produce toxins that can damage cells. Viruses invade cells and take them over to make them work for themselves. In both cases, the cells detect this via receptors and in response release substances to alert surrounding cells and recruit cells of the immune system. Damaged or affected cells may commit suicide if they can no longer fulfill their tasks anyway or if it serves to prevent the spread of the virus. The immune system recognizes bacteria and viruses by their components and reacts with the appropriate immune cells. In both cases, the body may also react with a fever because it increases the effectiveness of the immune system immensely. With each degree, the metabolic rate increases by up to 10%. Some immune cells can work a thousand times faster with an increase in body temperature of just one degree. In the case of bacteria, the bacteria are fought. In the case of viruses, the cells they have attacked are fought. In the case of bacteria, the body may also react with an abscess, or in other words an accumulation of pus in the tissue, in order to throw everything out.
Night fairies have more immune cells that check cells independently and react more aggressively to flaws. Cells are killed faster and commit suicide more quickly. Surrounding cells may also be killed or commit suicide. The number of surrounding cells that a cell is prepared to replace by dividing is high.
Night fairies have cells that are only there to neutralize substances that affect the functioning of their metabolism. When the larva of a night fairy comes into contact with certain bacteria, it builds cells to neutralize the toxins of these bacteria. This does not mean that a night fairy cannot suffer from a bacterial infection, but only that an infection is less physically noticeable to it because it reacts more quickly to the toxins. The bacteria are then fought normally by immune cells.
The cells of night fairies are structured differently from those of other living beings because they have a different ancestry. The cells are not necessarily better, but they are certainly different. The viruses of our world are not adapted to them and are detected immediately. The viruses cannot adapt because night fairies are solitary beings.
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