LYRE
Admittedly, I hadn't expected the Fiddlebacks to have such extensive warding through their little underground tunneling system, though it isn't like I thought there would be no warding.
And I definitely didn't expect removing one to cause an immediate Plausibility Warning to alert on my app, giving me a 36-hour limitation on arcana use.
But worst of all, none of us had expected to smell and hear the distinct sounds of people in cages.
Which basically brings us to now—over a day later, watching Thom shakily pull through his meager amount of arcana storage to dismantle yet another ward. He's swaying on his feet and almost bone-dry, but we're only ten feet from yet another cage of pitiful shifters.
These aren't wolves, but others. Bunnies, cats, even a lone cougar shifter who came from California. All with a sad story, an even sadder capture, and a fractured future.
