Surprise and flesh

With each other. Follows the mother with other thex.

The zylthex absorb surprise. In order to survive, they must hide away and spring out to shock people, attracting surprise with their bone-mane (called a conductive plate). If they are completely charged, they are able to grab the emotion instead of absorbing it. Female zylthex have the ability to see attentiveness if they close their eyes. Male zylthex have in childhood the ability to speak without being heard by others. They lose this ability in adolescence, but gain the ability to vanish completely once they are grown. The zylthex are immune to surprises.

The zylthex live in small families in quiet areas, waiting for victims. When they absorb surprise, it leaves the victim, and usually, they are able to escape without the victim understanding what just happened. They are very silly, and they tend to use their females to find victims, their children to coordinate an attack, and their males to exact it. They are rare and harmless, for the most part. Other forms of surprise also sustain them, but they are weaker than a short, sharp shock.