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.

situation was absolutely the

had changed while he slept, and there

stared at the treasure chest beneath him. After a while,

next-level pettiness. Not only did I kill this poor bastard, I even went so far

down, down below, false stars shimmered with white

by how much of his shadow essence had regenerated, Sunny judged that he slept for about

of his, of course, were very rough. But if he assumed them to be correct, that would mean that he had left the Sanctuary six days

had no idea how long it was going to take to reach the thing on the end of the golden String of Fate, but had to assume that it would take at least a

in the basement of his house. The pod would keep it alive for months, so Sunny was not too worried about his physical well-being…

Would anyone miss him?

to his long ventures into the Dream Realm, and even if none of them had been as long as this one was going to be, they would

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 Night Temple, and he wasn't there to

she would just think that he was avoiding her, as he

of the dead treasure chest in boundless darkness, Sunny realized that no one was really going to

in his hand, Sunny remained motionless

I have my coins, at

***

connecting him to the dead Mimic with his one functioning hand, Sunny summoned the Dark Wing, then cautiously climbed onto the

plummeting down with incredible speed, his body felt pleasantly light. Sunny thought about

any sense? Yesterday, he had thought that the speed of his fall was going to increase exponentially, which meant that at some point

assumption was wrong. Since he could breathe in the Sky Below and felt the wind — or rather, the air moving past him as he fell through it