Chapter 34: Talfryn
He was surrounded by shifters in their animal forms, all just out of sight, all flooding the atmosphere with their excitement. Talfryn stepped around the dead dragons, moved toward the nearest box shape, and wrenched off the burlap.
The cage was metal, full of wolf pups with longer than usual bodies and what looked to be fangs that could deliver venom. Their eyes were dull, like they were drugged, and Talfryn put everything together quickly. Down here, in this nightmare come to life, people like the partial mixed spells to drug shifters, keep them docile and disconnected from their magic. Talfryn could feel the pups trying to reach out for theirs, but they all failed. One tried to get up and fell, and he assumed that was part of the spell, too. They were kept in this
