Ankyra Sound they, they will beg me, they will cry until you weep

they had a visitor — two visitors, in fact — though neither of the women were unknown to the sand veiled boy. the smell of something — hopefully some kind of food — and the sound of approaching footfalls pulls scarab to his paws and he does a happy prance in place before scrambling out of the den with an abrupt and unfiltered eagerness in greeting, peering up at caiaphas, tail wagging furiously behind him, jumping up on his hind legs, pawing at her leg in an ill-fated attempt to lick her chin and sniff at the curious thing betwixt her jaws. he spares raleska a glance but caiaphas has what he assumes is food and thus she draws and holds the majority of his attention.