the juice-suckers werent adults they were infants , their bug-mother lumbered about in the pit searching for any sign of food , it was the size of a full grown komodo but with hard overlapping shells as thick as the plating on a crawler , its head carried no eyes just long feelers that waved about sending information back to the tiny brain , there were two curved pinchers the length of a mans arm that opened and closed hoping to cease any prey and hold it long enough for the suckers at the mouth to drain it of all fluids .