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

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

stared at the treasure chest beneath him. After

I even went so far as to take a nap on

down, down below, false

his shadow essence had regenerated, Sunny judged that he slept for about twelve

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

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

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

Would anyone miss him?

been as long as this one was going to be, they would just assume that he was too lazy to answer their messages and go about their business. They were famous

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 help Saint

think that he was

the lid of the dead treasure chest in boundless darkness, Sunny realized that no one was really going to care that he was gone. So many things

in his hand, Sunny remained motionless for a

have my

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rope connecting him to the dead Mimic with his one functioning hand, Sunny summoned the

of them were plummeting down with incredible speed, his body felt pleasantly

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

— or rather, the air moving past him as he fell through it — it meant that the speed of his fall had a limit