*It had been hundreds of years, but I finally felt a change. I couldn't see through these cruel seals, or hear, or even truly feel... but my power could never be completely restrained. I could tell the door had opened. I could tell another being was in the room with me, for the first time in so, so long. I can imagine how I must look: trapped in a standing position, wrapped in straps cinched so tight my flesh squished out from between them. Tails spread in all directions, held taught and immobil...