Shadow Slave

Sunny's bed trembled slightly, and he felt the wind blowing across the room. Still mostly asleep, he sighed and tried to pull the blanket higher. However, that damned thing was nowhere to be found.

'Where the hell is it…'

Reluctant to let go of sleep, he blindly searched for the blanket. Instead of finding it, though, Sunny suddenly felt his whole bed careen to the side. Startled, he opened his eyes… and saw nothing but darkness surrounding him.

'What the?! Oh… right.'

He wasn't in his small room in the Sanctuary. He was plummeting into a lightless abyss atop the corpse of a Fallen Devil, instead.

Sunny stared into the darkness for a bit.

Then, he yawned.

'Well. At least I slept well.'

Indeed, he was feeling rather refreshed. Most of his aches had either disappeared or grown milder, and even his wounded mind felt soothed. He felt rested, energized, and much better overall.

The only problem was, he was still falling into the endless void of the Sky Below.

Sunny scratched the back of his head, though about this predicament, then summoned the Endless Spring and drank some water. Then, he concentrated and tried to assess the situation.

was absolutely

surrounded by nothing, nothing had changed while he slept, and there was

chest beneath

poor bastard, I even

false stars

shadow essence had regenerated, Sunny judged that he slept for about twelve hours. A bit longer

rough. But if he assumed them to be correct,

golden String of Fate, but had to assume that

the basement of his house. The pod would keep

Would anyone miss him?

as this one was going to be, they would just assume that he was too lazy to answer their messages and go about their

Sanctuary were not in the habit of keeping a detailed record of who went in and out of the Citadel. The most anyone was going to think about him would be when Cassie arrived from the

he was avoiding

realized that no one was really going to care that he was gone. So many things had changed, but even

beautiful glass bottle in his hand, Sunny remained motionless for a while,

I have my coins,

***

dance. Holding onto the rope connecting him to the dead Mimic with his one functioning hand, Sunny summoned the Dark Wing, then cautiously climbed onto the side of the big chest and

that both of them were plummeting down with incredible speed,

that the speed of his fall was going to increase exponentially, which meant that at some point his body

or rather, the air moving past