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 a human once,

which the

tensed, then

to? Then what are you

voice disappeared for a few moments,

"...Lost."

Sunny blinked.

the hell does

in lost

out a sad

Not in the

felt cold shivers run down his

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

One of the Lost…

were also 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

Sunny relax a little… not that he had any reason to believe that

Or something worse...

he was Lost, that didn't explain how they were 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 the real

certainly were not were disembodied voices coming

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

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

that answered with

is a

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

Aren't you

voice suddenly

you descending into the Sky Below? This is a very

couple of times, then

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, that island broke off its chain. So, I had to jump off. And here I

Then, he frowned.

it dangerous? I haven't seen anything dangerous

lingered for a while, then sighed