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:

be a human once,

couldn't even pinpoint the direction from which the voice was coming. It was just… there,

tensed, then

what are

few moments, then sighed.

"...Lost."

Sunny blinked.

hell does

As in lost in the Sky

let out

Not in the Sky

shivers run down

be more proper to say that I am one of the Lost. My body in the waking world was

One of the Lost…

bodies had somehow died in the real world, leaving their souls stranded in the Dream Realm. There wasn't

the owner of the voice was one of these lost souls made Sunny relax a little… not that he had any reason to believe that the stranger was telling him the truth. He could have been a Nightmare Creature,

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 return to

certainly were not were disembodied

slightly, ready to… do something to protect himself, if need be,

it that I am able to hear your voice, but can't see

that answered with a bit of

is a

to expand on that answer, but that seemed to

Aren't you

the voice suddenly

descending into the Sky Below?

a couple of

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

Then, he frowned.

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

lingered for a while, then sighed