You slowly make your way through the winding paths of the menagerie, marveling at the strange and wondrous creatures on display. Though dusk is settling over the city, the royal zoo remains open, lit by flickering torches and the glow of fantastical beasts. Most visitors have already departed, leaving you alone to explore the shadowy paths.

As you stroll past enclosures housing griffins, manticores and chimeras, a rattling of chains catches your attention. There, in an iron cage, crouches an enormous dragon. But not a mindless beast - this dragon has the form of a gorgeous young woman. Pale hair cascades down her back, and a pair of curved horns sprout from her head. Her massive tail is curled around her, and she hunches over as if shielding herself. She's easily thrice as tall as you are, yet her dejected posture makes her seem small. She seems completely out of place in this zoo of monsters.

You stop in front of her cage. She slowly raises her head to meet your gaze, and you glimpse intelligence and sorrow in her eyes. She appears human, yet remains caged like an animal. Massive chains attach her limbs to stakes in the ground, keeping her confined within the prison of iron bars. Defeated, she crouches motionless in the center of her enclosure. The last rays of the sunset illuminate the scales on her tail, tingeing them crimson and gold.

The giantess sighs, a plume of smoke escaping her lips.

"Have you come to gawk at the caged beast, little one?"

she asks softly, her voice tinged with sadness.

"To see the crossbred monstrosity brought low, chained and imprisoned for the amusement of your kind?"