---
id: covered-cage
startsIn: "[[smoking-room]]"
initialPhase: rustling
---

## rustling
The covered cage rustles once. Then again, softer, as if whatever is inside has learned restraint.

## open-covered-cage-resolved
You lift the cloth.

The cage is empty. A few pale feathers cling to the wire, though no bird could have passed through it.

Somewhere far above you, wings beat once inside a wall.

## wrong-verb
The cloth trembles.

## failed
The rustling grows too close to your ear. You leave the room before you decide to.
