The Luna’s Revenge
The sound clawed at the mind,
as though the river itself remembered every soul it had swallowed.
The cage rose on its banks, half-swallowed by stone and shadow. It was not a prison in the mortal sense. No walls of
mortar, no doors of wood. It was iron wrought into cruel shapes, spires rising like teeth, runes etched into every bar.
It pulsed faintly with power, the wards of ancient witches binding it, caging not only flesh but spirit. This was the
Cage of Fernwood, the place where Alphas went not to die, but to be forgotten.