Deathworm (dehth-wohrm)

Deathworm

Not all predators were big. Deathworms were wretched parasites that burrowed into the skin of its prey and ate it from the inside out. It was difficult to get a worm out its host. To have one inside someone was a death sentence. The soft moist skin of the deathworm was perfect for quickly slithering around a host body. They were able to burrow inside creatures’ bodies by excreting a biodegradable fluid that instantly eroded skin and bone. This fluid continued to breakdown everything the deathworm ate in the host body to a gooey slime. Deathworms were asexual invertebrates, meaning they were neither male nor female. Every deathworm was born with a set of eggs ready to be lain. They lay one egg in each vital organ of the body. These eggs didn’t hatch until the host body died.