Ellie on Planet X

Among Planet X’s more obnoxious denizens is the Familiar Pinching Flit (seen here actual size). Sure, they might look all fuzzy and cute,  but behind that big puppy-dog eye that melts your heart lies a critter so annoying, it drives both quadrapus and marf mad.

This particular species of flit spends its days sucking the juicy interiors out of a variety of jelly grasses. Once it’s had its fill, it quickly grows bored. And a bored flit is a flit looking for trouble. It then meets up with other bored flits and they start buzzing around, looking for a victim.

Then the pinching starts. This is where it helps to have a titanium alloy shell.