Aboletto [English version]

Abolettos (Lacrimae somniorum) are spirits belonging to the Lemures group. In the paralarval stage they are known, together with two other species of the same family (Lacrimae sanguinis and sidereum), as tears of desires.

Appearance

As adults, abolettos have the appearance of large spherical masses two to six meters wide, generally flattened at the poles, green, yellow or blue in color, translucent enough to allow a glimpse of the luminous energy center, which is located right in the center of the body.

They have no eyes or ears, si they orient themselves in the world only through taste, the perception of pain and that of vibrations. The surface of adult abolettos is soft and pleasant to the touch: the sensation of touching them has sometimes been described as similar to that of a hot water bottle made of agar agar jelly.

During their paralarval stage, they tend to be brighter, with a crystalline surface, and gather in small colonies that, when they manifest in the material world, are particularly pleasing to humans.

When an adult aboletto is injured, it protects itself by instantly forming a series of long spines on its surface, giving it the appearance of a big sea urchin.

Behavior

Abolettos are extremely passive spirits, which simply remain in the same spot even for years, incorporating dust and dead materials that touch them through their skin, feeding very slowly. They are completely harmless, except for the long spikes that form on their surface when they are injured, and due to their extremely elastic and robust consistency, they are difficult to cut or pierce, so the possibility of being accidentally stung by their rising spikes is very low.

They rarely manifest in the material world, and when they do, it is generally due to mistakes or the fault of other creatures that transported them. When this happens, they have no problem surviving in the material world, feeding primarily on dust, dry leaves, dead insects, and other things that settle and remain on them for a long time.

Habitat

Abolettos are an indicator of healthy and life-rich areas, thriving primarily within complex spirit ecosystems. Well-developed abolettos can generally be found wherever there are living forests with large trees.

Diet

In their natural environment, abolettos feed primarily on non-encoded ectoplasm and various remains of other spirits' meals. They are excellent detritivores and help maintain healthy ecosystems.

Conservation

They are unfortunately a vulnerable species, hunted by humans as one of the easiest ghosts to keep in captivity. Unfortunately, although their immobility makes them easy to keep in small terrariums, these creatures adapt poorly to captivity, requiring good air exchange, and variable conditions in terms of humidity and temperature: they could easily survive in a temperate forest, but die after a few weeks if kept indoors.

Furthermore, their natural distribution area is progressively shrinking, due to the destruction of forests, both ectoplasmic and natural, and deforestation.

There is an old, and barbaric, practice that consists of capturing the young of this species and locking them in transparent glass jars, making a wish and waiting for the paralarvae to shrink until they die of hunger and disappear, and the disappearance of the "wishing tear" should in theory mean that the wish will come true. This senseless custom, without any magical or scientific basis, has further reduced the number of specimens of abolettos in nature.

Trivia

• The largest aboletto ever measured was 20 feet, 10 inches in diameter.

• For a long time, abolettos were not considered living beings, but some sort of mysterious natural phenomenon.

• It seems to love the vibrations produced by whistled tunes, one of the few things that can make an aboletto move, and in this case try to roll toward the source of the sound.