Sunny stared into the darkness with an incredulous expression, then shrugged:
"Sure. Whatever. Nice to make your acquaintance… Your Highness. I am called Sunless, by the way. Sadly, no title."
Silently, though, he thought:
'...The young prince that the Dreamspawn had taken away?'
Oblivious to his suspicions, Mordret hesitated, then asked politely:
"Sunless? What an unusual name."
Sunny grimaced.
"Yes. My mother had a… on second thought, forget that! Are you going to tell me about the divine flame or not?"
The Prince of Nothing was silent for a bit, then said:
"There is not much to tell. The heat of those flames is absolutely deadly. Unless you have some way to fly, you are in big trouble. Which, I assume, you don't… otherwise, you wouldn't be in this predicament, to begin with. Right?"
'Well… you can't argue with sound logic, I guess!'
Sunny sighed.
"...I can control the direction of the fall, but yes, no true flight."
He hesitated, then added reluctantly:
"For what it is worth, my Aspect Ability allows me to turn incorporeal, as well as teleport for short distances."
He didn't really want to share the details of his powers with the mysterious prince, but currently, there was no other choice. Mordret obviously knew more about the Sky Below than Sunny, so his advice was vital.
prince thought for a few moments,
itself. However, not everything is lost. Even though
glanced into the darkness with
Tell me something
The void chuckled.
only because you asked
Then, it disappeared.
Sunny's face twitched.
"Goddammit! He's gone again!"
second later, Mordret's voice suddenly resounded from the
still time.
a few moments, then
actually a path through the divine flame. An empty rift in the tapestry of stars where none of it remains. If you
emotions these days, Sunny tried his hardest to suppress the misplaced anger and calm himself down. When he spoke,
sooner? How far am I from this rift,
Mordret sighed.
exactly. More than that, I had never managed to find the rift myself.
too. Why? What's out there, beyond the fake
head, the asked
it, how do you know that
void remained silent for some time. After a while, when Mordret spoke again, his
Tear… it should be somewhere near
alone in the darkness again. This time, the mysterious prince was truly
while, staring into the endless nothingness of
"Near the Tear…"
had pointed toward the Tear. To somewhere very near its center. If the rift in the annihilating field of the divine flames had anything to do with the golden
had already half-found it,
Sunny sighed and closed his eyes again, returning to the endless routine of circulating the shadow
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