Answer:
What do you purposefully put lots of in and on your body, but run away from when you encounter it outside?
Never alive but practically extinct. How we miss the letters pressing the ribbon of ink. What is it?
Soft and fragile is my skin, I get my growth in mud. Iβm dangerous as much as pretty, for if not careful, I draw blood.
Give it food and it will live, give it water and it will die.
An open ended barrel, it is shaped like a hive. It is filled with the flesh, and the flesh is alive.
If itβs information you seek, come and see me. If itβs pairs of letters you need, I have consecutively three. What am I?