[homeGolden]

BLOOD ON STEEL - VALHALLA RISING / ELLA ENCHANTED (yep)
The cage was shoved sturdily up against a rock wall, sheer and naked and harsh. There were no guards around, which Char found odd. He waited for the boy to give the prisoner his food and then hid carefully away as the boy went past and back to the settlement. Once he was certain the boy was gone, he picked himself up off the cold ground and inched cautiously forward to the cage.
Inside was—a man. Something like a man. Man-shaped, anyway, though his face looked like it was made of the same material of the wall he leaned against. His one working eye—the other one seemed to have been gouged out, and nothing like gentle—was sharp and hard like the frozen earth.
There was a shackle around his neck, like a dog’s collar, and the heavy chain it was affixed to run through a thick ring hammered into the wall, and then to a strong-looking anchoring post several feet away, well out of reach of the cage.