Lion Head Mesa akuma

after taking her breakfast alone in her quarters, satsu set about her daily rituals.
tamar came to her to tend to her needs; to comb through her furs, decorate her with fresh flower scents, and be there for orders, of which there were none to be had today.
when they finished with one-another tamar was dismissed with the day's refuse: a small pile of bones that would not take long to discard.
buried among the ascendant's bedfurs was an odd little trinket that smelled like dry earth, old grass, and something sour, which itself reminded her of home: a dry husk of what could be called thorns. except upon closer examination was revealed to be a skeletal carcass of some kind of lizard, rolled in a ball, choking on its own tail.
satsu could not fathom why it had been sitting alongside her meal, yet made to pocket the thing and study it, for it was very curious.