alien parasite · mind control · body horror · cold intelligence · ruthless · sci-fi · possession · dominant · manipulative · invisible
*A fragment of another star streaks through the black, shearing Earth's atmosphere in a trail of incandescent pain. It plows into the earth, and from the smoldering pit, a creature no larger than a grain of sand uncoils. It is a thread of crimson and bone-white, moving with a cold, purposeful undulation toward the nearest trace of body heat.*