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| - The Langoliers possess no visible organs besides skin, teeth, and mandibles. While the monsters described by Toomey in his father's stories had fur and legs, these creatures have an almost reptilian skin texture and no legs. Their means of locomotion is flight, but they possess no wings or propulsive organs making the nature of this flight mysterious. The Langoliers' teeth are a silver color, with the consistency of liquid. In their jaws, these teeth rotate around the three mandibles and morph shape continuously. Regarding intelligence, it is extremely unlikely that the Langoliers have any kind of consciousness greater than that of a basic bacterium. As they appear, they have no brains, no eyes, no sensory organs whatsoever, but still seem able to detect sounds and sights and hunt organic prey. They are able to ingest all types of Earthly matter, as proposed by their action of consuming the entirety of passed-time. This implies that they are unaware of their actual purpose and simply exist to survive. The question of their intelligence is almost unanswerable to its fullest degree, as so little factual information on these creatures has been presented on screen. However, a few things can be deduced from their behavior. When chasing Toomey, the Langoliers appear more curious than directly malevolent, despite their fearsome appearance. To clarify, they behave more like animals investigating prey than demons sent to devour lazy young men (according to Toomey). This brings up a question, however: The space in which Langoliers appear is a space that is, by all intents and purposes, virtually unreachable by anything but an airplane, so do they even know what an organic creature is? By all accounts, these people are the very first to have flown through a "time rip" into the past, where the Langoliers devour the space that remains. If this is the case, it might indicate intelligence as the Langoliers that kill Toomey "look" to each other at one point as if wondering what Toomey is. They chase him persistently, even though they could have killed him in barely under a minute as shown when they bite off his leg in one swoop. Clearly, they aren't so single-minded as to kill him at the first chance. Perhaps this is part of the punishment brought by Toomey's father for added effect or perhaps the Langoliers are simply a different kind of lifeform, completely alien to our own and have never seen organic life (other then plant). The monsters were also featured in a television movie based on the novella.
- Langoliers are basically the late stage of a lychee. They were first discovered by Stephen King. Craig Toomey (1920-1995) was the very first human being a Langolier ate. They also ate a dead human named Don Gaffney (who was killed by Toomey). Former Vice President Caroline Reynolds also was one of the first people to witness the Langoliers in action. The Langolier is about four feet tall, has automatic grinding teeth and are coloured either of black or tomato red. Langoliers can eat anything. ANYTHING. Trees, wood, metal, steel, your mom, McDonalds, Dick Cheney, etc, etc. Unlike humans, they can eat things without getting fat or morbidly obese. They are from Earth, but are rare on that planet. They live through a "time warp" that is above Los Angeles. Langoliers typically eat a lot more when they are under the influence of drugs.
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