Ashswarm

Yottoko's queen and the only lioness who knows how to treat the "rage disease" the Caedes tree inflicts. Lions afflicted will become violent and hateful, too filled with anger to think, and they can end up killing those close to them and even attacking gods. Ashswarm's work is simple. Find them, catch them, cure them. Nobody knows where she gets the cures, or what it really is, but why look a gift horse in the mouth? It's a cure that works, which is further than any other lion has gotten.

She watches them sometimes - the sick. They gather round the tree at the sun's peak, just.. staring. Their red eyes are wide and unfocussed, silence other than the shaking of their thin bodies. She recognized some of them as old friends of hers, their faces ruined with blood, every bit of life she once knew gone from their eyes. She could hardly look at them anymore..
As if commanded to by the tree itself, the sick begun to dig at the sand around it, shoving their snouts into the ground and throwing out mouthfuls of sand. What were the searching for?