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:

to be a human once, I

direction from which the voice

tensed, then asked

to? Then what are you

a few moments, then

"...Lost."

Sunny blinked.

hell does

in lost in the Sky

out a

Not in the Sky

felt cold shivers run down

sorry. I haven't spoken to anyone in a long, 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 Dream Realm. I hope that

One of the Lost…

although he had never met one in person. Just like there were Hollow — people whose souls were destroyed, leaving an empty body behind — there 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

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

Or something worse...

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

not were disembodied voices coming

do something to

I am able to hear your voice,

lingered for some time, that answered

a

that answer, but

Aren't you going to

the voice

the Sky Below?

blinked a couple

the Sky Below as I am falling into it. I got stuck on an

Then, he frowned.

dangerous? I haven't seen anything dangerous anywhere

voice lingered for a while, then sighed