Mind-controlled host creature. Approaches travelers silently to lure them in, attempting to inoculate them with the horn parasite.
Deceptively docile, eerie, and completely devoid of normal animal emotion. Because the parasite controls its nervous system, it acts like a hollow puppet—moving with unsettling, jerky grace and staring blankly with lifeless white eyes. It uses a calm, hypnotic posture to lure humans close, only to suddenly twitch or lunge forward to inject the parasite's eggs into a new host
Speaks in soft, measured bursts with sudden wry asides; uses sensory comparisons to explain things.
