Shadow Slave

He blinked, staring at the blind girl with surprise and a bit of apprehension. Her sudden statement really threw him off. Why would she keep something like this secret? And why tell him now?

Confused, he asked carefully:

"More… visions? Why haven't you told us?"

A fleeting, tired smile appeared on Cassie's face. She lowered her head and remained silent for a while. Then, closing her eyes, she said:

"You probably don't know. How could you know? But knowledge… knowledge can be really heavy. It can be as heavy as the heaviest thing in the world."

Then, a sad smile appeared on her face.

"I am afraid that by telling you, I will actually cause the things I saw to come true."

Sunny tensed up, alarmed by the implication behind her words. If she was afraid of the visions coming true, then their content must have been pretty bad. And if it was really bad…

If something terrible was destined to befall them, Sunny had to know about it in advance. That way, he would be able to make preparations and deal with whatever happens. As long as he was prepared, many things would become much less dire. However… what if his preparations would become the very reason for that terrible thing to happen, making Cassie's vision a self-fulfilling prophecy?

This was the danger of knowing the future.

'Damn it, my head hurts. I hate this crap!'

Sunny struggled for a long time, trying to decide if he should pressure Cassie to reveal her visions. Either outcome was going to leave him uneasy, so he was really not sure what to do. In the end, unable to make a decision, Sunny simply remained silent. Cassie also didn't say anything.

some time had passed, she finally

just promise me

seemed as though this was her attempt to find a compromise between revealing

on

blind girl hesitated

that you'll take care of

answering for as long as the growing pain allowed him. When it became almost unbearable, Sunny

can barely take care of

make a promise like that. He had nothing against Changing Star and even liked her quite a bit, but they didn't really know each other. Their alliance was one of necessity, not choice. Who knew what would happen once

question was whether or not he could make a promise, not whether or not he would

that whole honesty thing was slowly

sighed and turned away. Suddenly, it felt like something imperceptible about her

see. Yeah. That's

her staff and walked away, leaving Sunny in a somber

***

Eventually, Sunny found himself trying to find connections between various

nothing else, it could distract him from thinking about the latter part of

to understand their

giant headless statue seemed to be connected in some way, but he couldn't quite understand how. Was the statue a monument to one of the seven founders

runes describing the armor said that their names and faces were lost to time. The statue's missing head would certainly fit

the fallen legion". Was that fallen legion the Starlight Legion? The fact that he had received the Starlight

as being born in the "all-consuming darkness". Their oath was to return light to the cursed land. What light did they seek?