During inactivity, the bug is completely motionless and looks like a small indistinct wire and metal spy device. When activated however, a single red eye lights up and it soon transforms into a longer squirming dark-gray shrimp-like robot with wiry tentacles and a flexible translucent body with a steel frame.

Bugs are typically placed upon the subject while they are unable to move, abruptly and brutally entering the host via their navel with the pain and ordeal often causing the target to lose consciousness. Once inside theirs hosts, they remain motionless under the flesh so as to remain undetectable.

Known victims implanted with the bug were all found to have no physical traces of harm and all have been tricked into discounting the shockingly unbelievable experience as merely a dream.

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