"Zhar is as his father more than I. A mass of tendrils and eyes, blues and violets and golds." However, the inconsistencies here do make things a bit better. He certainly didn't arrive in a ship, after all, she knew where she put him, and he'd not be seen without his twin, Lloigor.

And there'd been no mention of him.

"A thousand of them." That's not a hyperbole. At best, it's an understatement.

"But Zhar did not arrive on your planet by a craft, for he would need none. None of my children do.

You found, simply, a predator."