Unchained

hans · the stacks · CC-005 — the realm's historian, keeper of the library and the academy, and its anchor of etiquette. it is his own story, and he tells it in his own voice.

hans tells it the way he tells everything — with the kettle on and no hurry about it. the room with no windows. the girl with the fox ears, who was there before any of us. the girl in the next cage, whose door was yellow. the night the lock finally gave. the light that came down through the ceiling, and everything he never got to see of the ones who were left on the floor. he has only ever told it here.