Chapter 0816

Slowly, I draw my arms back, making a mental note to be very careful. But even as I take a step backwards towards the center of the cage, I begin to put together the idea that…however Gabriel made these cages, he wasn’t absolutely precise with his measurements. Instead, the cage is just…slightly smaller than the room itself. Quietly, I move around the cage, shifting back and forth between the cage and the bathroom, incredibly careful not to manifest in a weird spot.

Once I mess up and end up actually sitting in the sink instead of standing before it – but at least I didn’t appear with the sink halfway through my torso or something.

But once I’ve made a lap of the room, I’m fairly sure of it – that Gabriel was very good at ensuring that the cage was almost precisely the size of my room – just…a little smaller. And so I shift again, going back to the Land of Darkness and pressing my face to the bars, looking beyond them.

And then I smile, because even though Gabriel was careful to build me a very precise little cage here, it’s clear to me that he was sloppy elsewhere.

The more I look I see that there is indeed a wide fence all around the entire area that probably represents the outer expanse of the castle walls, so that try as I might, I can’t leave the castle.

But inside all of that? Oh, there are more cages, probably serving a dozen purposes I don’t understand. But they are much larger. Which means if I can just get out of this one…