Shadow Slave

Sunny shuddered.

The voice he heard… was not his own. It sounded pleasant and calm, and seemed to have come from the darkness of the Sky Below itself.

'...Have I finally lost it?'

His first thought was that he had gone crazy again and was now hearing things.

His second thought was much less comforting…

'Damnation!'

Had he summoned some unholy titan from the depths of the Sky Below, after all?!

Sunny outstretched one hand, ready to manifest the Cruel Sight, but then hesitated.

If the owner of the voice was not a figment of his imagination, but some harrowing being of the void, was it really wise to agitate it? Would the silver blade even do anything against it?

'Calm down. Calm down. Maybe you just imagined the whole thing…'

As if to answer his thoughts, the void laughed softly.

"Ah, my apologies. I seem to have startled you."

Sunny gulped.

The pleasant voice seemed to belong to a young man, but no matter how hard he looked into the darkness, he couldn't see anyone… or anything… nearby.

He was reminded of his first meeting with Kai, only this time... this time, things were much more frightening.

"N—no worries. I just… didn't expect to hear another human's voice here. You, uh… you are a human… right?"

The void was silent for a while, then answered in a neutral tone:

used to be

pinpoint the direction from which the voice was coming. It was just…

tensed, then asked

Then what

a few moments, then sighed.

"...Lost."

Sunny blinked.

the hell does

lost in

darkness let out a

Not in

cold shivers run down his spine, it hesitantly

long time. Instead of lost, It would be more proper to say that I am one of the Lost. My body in the waking world was destroyed, but my soul continues to exist here, in the

One of the Lost…

there were also the Lost. People whose bodies had somehow died

relax a little… not that he had any reason to believe that the stranger was

Or something worse...

able to converse. The Lost, from what Sunny knew, were just like any other Awakened in the Dream Realm. It was just that they couldn't

they certainly were not were disembodied voices coming from the

his weight slightly, ready to… do something to protect

But how is it that I am able to hear your voice, but can't

for some time, that answered with

a good

expand on that answer, but that seemed to be it.

you going

voice suddenly

you descending into the Sky

couple of times, then

see… I am not so much descending into the Sky Below as I am falling into it. I got stuck on an island because of the Crushing, and sadly,

Then, he frowned.

dangerous? I haven't seen anything dangerous anywhere in

for a while, then sighed with