The Moonlit Menagerie's Lie

You enter a circular grove enclosed by white thorn trees that bend inward like the ribs of a cage. Dew glows blue on the roots, and the air smells of crushed mint, rain, and distant bonfires. Three waist-high animal reliefs face a central stone dais: a fox with a ruby eye, an owl with a pearl eye, and a stag with a jade eye. Above them, three moons drift in the air, silver, gold, and black. Whenever anyone speaks, the moons twitch toward the speaker, while a ring of firefly-like motes gathers around the statue whose words were last mentioned.