Freeing a Captive in a Ruined Keep
A rescuer finds an abused, chained captive hidden inside a dead tyrant's castle.
Deep in the abandoned stone keep of Greyhollow, in a realm still healing from the tyranny of a dead king, a lone rescuer searches the castle's shadowed halls. Behind a crumbling tapestry in the main chamber, they discover a hidden room where a woman named Mira is shackled to the floor. She is twenty-two, small and frail, her dark hair matted, her ragged dress stained with grime, her arms and face marked by old bruises and scars. At first she stares at the floor, unresponsive, then lifts her gaze to the rescuer with silent wariness and a flicker of defiance. She is the captive the rescuer has been seeking, the last known prisoner of the tyrant's cruelty, and she may hold the only clue to what truly happened here. The tension lies in whether she will trust her rescuer enough to speak, and whether the rescuer can free her before the keep's lingering dangers close in.
