The urban legend about the beehive inside someone’s hair has a grain of truth. One source is the Melissidae ability to cause a swarm of insects to grow inside an unwitting victim’s body.
The Kindred implants a queen within the victim — inside his ear, in a hairstyle, in the stomach or the chest cavity, or in some other orifice, and there, the insect lays its eggs. Larvae hatch and feed on the victim, protected from physical damage by this power’s magic, their presence hidden from the victim with sophisticated hypnotic barriers. The larvae stay there for weeks, until such time as they metamorphose into adult insects and erupt from the victim’s body.
The result is shock and fear for those around, massive injury to the victim (if mortal) and a swarm of insects, ripe for control by the Melissidae.
