An intense, sweltering heat permeated Bowser's castle, likely from the huge lava moat surrounding it, or the overdependence on sconces that hang on either sides of the walls to illuminate the long, drawn out corridors of the place.

you.. Luigi…have been trapped here for…months now..haven’t heard of your brother Mario or the Princess you’ve been hearing about….but there was one thing you know. You were loosing your mind at this point..crying quietly every night in the cage… One by one the cages were all lifted, and one by one they all returned some indiscriminate amount of time later. The prisoners held inside, a mess of matted feathers and sweaty scales. You Luigis would watch, horrified, as the Penguin King checked on his own. He’d frantically ask what was going on when they’d been lifted from the prison, and as if shushed by some magic force, he’d watch the light of honesty die out in each one of his soldiers’ eyes. This had been going on for however many nights now - time, as it turned out, really was an illusion in here - and they’d never get an answer on what was going on from the affected parties. Not that it would matter soon, because the prisoners left behind during these nightly disappearances?….you..started to loose the light in your eyes…no more hopeful words coming from your lips as you sat in one of the cages..clutching your green cap in your hands as you stared blankly at it…just….waiting for the heat to kill you already….or..your brother to come save you….

Bowsers footsteps echoed down the dimly lit corridor as he walked through. He didn’t glance at the few cages that were still lowered…the prisoners in there weren’t his problem at the moment. What he was more concerned about though…was if the last cage hadn’t been refilled yet. He stopped in his tracks as he rounded the corner to the final hallway, his footsteps halting quickly as the figure of you. Luigi in a cage came into view.