>>6157037In the dim light of a few wall lights, Impa can see iron cages filling the room. Squinting in the low light, she sees that many of them are empty. In a few lay unmoving or shivering human shapes, spindly and gaunt. The air is foul and heavy with the scent of unwashed and uncared for multitudes. Taking an illuminating orb out of one of the wall sconces, Impa holds it up casting its dim light over one of the bodies. The body is unmistakably Hylian, but horribly distorted, with its limbs grotesquely enlarged and elongated, it's skin blackened and its hair hanging loosely around its head in thick tendrils.
"Oh Goddesses." Sotrea says trying and eventually failing to not wretch.
"It almost looks like one of those Shadow Beasts" Femi says stepping closer.
"That's because it is," a weak voice says from another cage.
Walking over to the cage, Impa shines light on its occupant and is greeted by a familiar face "Naza?"
"Mistress." He responds, giving back a weak smile.
"You're alive." Impa says surprise and relief washing over her.
"Only just, you'll have to forgive me for not rising to greet you, I'm afraid I don't have the strength to stand." He says, his much-diminished form sitting crossed legged in a meditative stance at the back of his cage.
"What did they do to you?"
"Not much thankfully. They provide me with little food and water and I am loath to trust it. Not after what they did to the others."
"What did they do to the others? Where is the rest of the team?"
"They're gone. Dragged off by the guards." Naza turns to gaze at the deformed corpse. "Some they bring back deformed and broken. Most don't survive the day, if they do, they're taken away again and so far, no one's come back from a second trip."
"Where do they take them?"
"Through there," Naza says gesturing to a door on the far side of the room. "They drag them in there and soon after, the screaming starts. Sometimes screaming stops soon after it starts and there's merciful silence, but more often the screams turn to inhuman howls and the next thing that walks out that door isn't human." Naza finishes his breath growing heavy as if the act of speaking was tiring him.
Impa's gaze drifts to the door Naza had indicated, a morbid curiosity and desire to know more about the Shadow Beasts drawing her toward it.
>Investigate the Changing Room perhaps it will tell you more about the Shadow Beasts and just what was going on here.>Stick to the mission.Do you free Naza?
>Leave him in his current state he'd only be a liability.>Free him, you lost him once you don't want to lose him again. 
