Strangulora pectoralis 🦴 Common Name: The Ribbind, The Bone Tumble
🔬 Scientific Name: Strangulora pectoralis
🦴 Common Name: The Ribbind, The Bone Tumble
🌿 Classification:
Kingdom: Plantae
Order: Sarraceniales
Family: Costoflorae
Genus: Strangulora
Species: pectoralis
🧬 Morphology:
A dense, spherical tangle of ossified ligature-ribs, bound with calcified filament and fracture-vine. Composed entirely of repurposed intercostal analogues fused into a mobile orb, its outer shell features hooklike bloom-shears resembling curled scapula petals. Within the sphere, dormant tendon-loops twitch gently, sensing air tension and lung resonance.
🧴 Osteofusion:
The Ribbind travels until it finds breath. Upon proximity to an exhale or held truth, it latches to the ribcage of the nearest host. Outer ribs spiral outward to embrace the thorax; central bloom unfurls within, integrating through sternum pressure. Fusion is often silent, but final.
🧠 Traits:
- Rolls on low glyphic wind or mnemonic vacuum
- Responds to heartbeat irregularities and unspoken confession
- If spoken to truthfully, it disassembles itself into a clean stack of named ribs
- If lied to, it tightens, and the host cannot exhale again without blooming
📍 Habitat:
Floats silently through ossogardens, bone-crypt cloisters, and archival no-air vaults. Known to clatter gently across mortuary stone before choosing its host.
⚠️ Risk Profile:
G8-V — Bone-fusion ambush vector. High potential for involuntary mnemonic compression and confessional lock.
📝 Notes:
- “We heard it before we saw it. Like someone dragging fingers across dry ribs.”
- “It hit my chest and I couldn’t speak — it knew I wasn’t ready.”
- “I told the truth. And it uncoiled into a bouquet. Each rib had my name.”