Chaetognath [lowres]

“Sometimes, a shatal infection goes...well, even more wrong than it usually does. A chaetognath (or paleworm) is an amalgam of an ysleria and the shatal that just infected them, but instead of turning them into a lumbering hive, this happened. Absurdly fast and silent, they slide slightly under the dunes with immense ease, and are always hunting in packs of five or six. Another reason not to venture in the desert alone under pain of death (or worse).”

• Albe Ombrelune, Al-Katib Al-Awwal