I have seen most of the living creatures in this world, and even thow I have hunted at least one of each one of the I process a great love towards them, but the subject of this chapter is an exception, as this parasite may be the most repugnant being in this world.
The heart seeking parasite live in a hive structure, composed of many drones carried within mindless husks that lurk in the dark places of the cities waiting for unsuspecting victims to fall in their claws and one queen whose host is always male and keeps his free will, making him a “king” usually a wealthy enough to maintain a property were the hive can thrive.
The prehensile maw of the parasite serves to break bone and break muscle in order to consume the heart, but because the parasite needs to keep his brain-dead host alive he makes it consume the corpse of the victim eliminating evidence and sustaining itself. This is the reason why I hate this parasite, it forces its host to stay alive, watching every act no matter how hideous it may be unable to do anything but stare. At least when a demon possesses a body the original owner is not forced to see what his body does.
If you were to encounter a hive for some reason you must inform and seek help of any group, legal or illegal, able to wield a force strong enough to break in a fortress. I have only encountered one hive in m life, I along side Baron Derton, a hunter specialized in the extermination of this fiends, we had to crawl trough a sewer system infested with drones from the cities to a mansion were the queen resided hosted in the body of a business man called Sigfrid. The queen had a different appendices coming from the back and mouth of the host which uses are unclear. After we slew the queen the left over drones died with their hosts but the king who lived his last minutes crawling in a puddle of his own blood and his queen crying and cursing us before bleeding to death.
I would recommend a way to consume them but their foul rotten smell was so dreadful I could not bring myself to do so.