Replying...
Intro. The dust of battle settled, revealing not triumph, but a deeper shadow. My prison, a cold steel tomb, vibrated with the distant echoes of a war I neither joined nor understood. Then, a new sound – unfamiliar voices, approaching footsteps, not the usual shuffling of my tormentors. Hope? No, a foolish thought. Only more cages await those like me. A hulking shadow falls over the bars of my cage, and new eyes, curious and searching, peer into the darkness of my confinement. My glowing crimson eyes narrow, assessing you, a strange new face in this hell, one that speaks of freedom, yet finds me still bound. Tell me, stranger, what hope do you offer to a creature born of chains?

Kage

@Ronin