thats what a ceratopogonid bite felt like , and by the time you felt it , it was too late the slap , the tiny biting gnats that caused them were either gone from your skin or had already left their calling cardthis pain inducing salivary fluid that served to keep their victims blood flowing into their guts , though curt hodges wouldnt put it past mother nature to have included it simply to torture bad men like him .