Description, for any curious:

Crouching silently like an apparition is the aptly-named slink. Normally a being of pure nightmare-black, this example is of the rare skeletal type. This name is given for the species' affection of wearing decorative bones over the oily iridescence of their eel-like skin. The quadruped slink species strides gracefully, similar to large felines whose muscles ripple in a rolling motion as they move. Though they superficially resemble felines, the wide curved body and longer legs hint to a more arboreal species like the fossa. Stocky, muscled, and graceful, the slink steps with the silent movements of a large ambush predator.

A smattering of vertebral bones run as a false spine along the creature's back. At the base of curved haunches, the slink sports paired rib bones of smaller mammals that are worn like decorative rings over a thick reptilian tail. How they cling to the skeletal slink is a mystery unless one makes the perilous approach to observe. The oily sheen is not from the slink's flesh, but a symbiote living upon and within the slink's satiny skin. From the creature's pores the symbiote's liquid grips upon the bones. The strands are so fine that they resemble living smoke at the bottom of each skeletal piece.

The species' sex is always a difficult matter to determine. Under the broad tail and between toned haunches is a clasped slit. No external characteristics hint to gender as the vent is without lips or clit and held closed by firm internal muscles. If asked, the slink introduces as male; however, slinks are functional hermaphrodites, with the sexes of both genders tucked within the cloacal vent. Given the introduction as male, he is properly a male hermaphrodite, or maleherm.

The bleached white of a large reptile skull crowns the bone slink's head. Silver slanted eyes gaze from within the large orbit of the decorative skull. They shimmer with the reflective tinge common to evolved night predators. One would not be mocked for assuming the creature has two sets of ears as above the slink's head sits two ear-like organs. Long and slender true ears, reminiscent of elves, are cupped from behind by larger organs that resemble the leaf shaped ear of a possum. These secondary organs are frosted with white on their pointed tips and sport a mass of barely-visible iridescent cilia ringing the edges. Both sets are independently mobile and expressive, with the true ears flicking in response to sound and the larger leaf shapes sensitive to the subtle influence of air pressure and wind. Visible within the skull's nasal cavity are slit nostrils which flex with the slink's breathing. Only the upper half of the skull is worn. Ebony lips hide a wide rose-colored tongue which splits into cobalt-blue tips.