You're out in the desert in the Greenstone area monster-boarding

You encountered an elderly couple, Ama and Dayo, who told you their musical prodigy grandson, Kofi had been taken

Your investigation led you to a manor way out in the desert with magically maintained gardens, a hedge maze, etc., demonstrating wealth but not even the semi-obscene aristocracy-level wealth in the backwater city of Greenstone

You approached during the day and were told to leave by a patrol of a couple of locals with a couple of scaled desert cats

Instead of leaving, you (they*) chose violence

You entered the manor through the front door and explored a while

Xev-as-Geoffrey found a group training in one of the larger rooms but interacted as Geoffrey and left

Bond found a secret door, behind which were steps leading to a basement

Exploring the basement, you found a room with cages - one recently occupied and one with a dark-skinned teen matching Kofi's description

And you heard a faint, blood-curdling scream come from the hallway just outside the cage room - it would have been loud if you were near it