Mystique's Veiled Mystery

Mystique was a walking mood ring. A veiled chameleon with a casque on his head and independently moving eyes, his world was vertical. He'd move with slow, deliberate, swaying steps along branches, his prehensile tail always securely coiled. His color palette shifted from bright green when calm to dramatic stripes of yellow, blue, and black when excited or stressed. The screen cage is just empty lattice now, missing the soft *hiss* of the misting system he'd drink from, the slow tracking of his eyes, and the incredible spectacle of his tongue shooting out to capture a cricket.