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:

I used to be a

the voice was coming. It was just… there, somehow. Everywhere.

then asked

what are

a few moments, then sighed.

"...Lost."

Sunny blinked.

the hell does he

As in lost in

let out a

in the Sky

run down his

to say that I am one of the Lost. My body in

One of the Lost…

the Lost. People whose bodies had somehow died in the real world, leaving their souls stranded in the Dream Realm. There wasn't a lot of them, since most of the time the soul perished shortly after the body had, but there were

a little… not that he had any reason to believe that the stranger was telling him the truth. He could have

Or something worse...

if he was Lost, that didn't explain how they were able to converse. The Lost, from what Sunny knew, were just like

were not were disembodied voices coming from

shifted his weight slightly, ready to… do something to protect himself, if

I am able to hear

time, that

a

for him to expand on that answer, but that seemed to be it. A bit irritated,

you going to

voice suddenly

Sky Below? This

a couple of times, then

as I am falling into it. I got stuck on an island because of the Crushing, and sadly, that island broke off its chain. So, I

Then, he frowned.

is it dangerous? I haven't seen anything dangerous anywhere in this dreadful

a while, then sighed with