I really enjoyed this, the second half more than the first. A couple of little issues - a sentence missing a word in the middle of the story and it took too long to establish Jonathan as being in the cage. Overall, really enjoyable!
It really is, I had a hard time fitting my piece into one page of the template, wound up cutting a character and B plot from mine. Good to work within constraints though, this is my first writing jam and I'm digging it quite a bit.