Shadow Slave

Sunny descended from the White Feather's aery in a complicated mood.

If he ever had doubts that the lost prince was harboring dire secrets, now, there were none. Why else would Saint Tyris caution him to not speak about the Mirror Beast, who had seemingly been the only trace left of Mordret's existence?

Mordret had conquered the First Nightmare when he was only twelve… such an individual, surely, would have been as famous as Nephis back in the real world. And yet, Sunny had never heard of him, or of anyone who had accomplished the same feat.

It was almost as if someone very powerful had purposefully erased any mention of the mysterious prince from history.

…How had he lost his physical body, to begin with? And where was his spirit body in the Dream Realm? Did… did he even have one? He must have had it once, at least. The pack Sunny had found on the Reckoning contained a detailed map of the Chained Isles, with the word "hope" written on it next to a question mark.

Back then, he thought that the owner of the pack had been killed by the Mirror Beast. Now, however, he suspected that it had belonged to Mordret himself.

So, the lost prince had at least visited the Chained Isles before disappearing. Was the great clan Valor complicit in his disappearance? Sunny had no real reason to come to that conclusion, other than the fact that the Chained Isles were in their sphere of influence, and that Saint Tyris hinted at her knowledge of the nature of the Mirror Beast.

But why hadn't she killed it herself?

'I am going to have to ask Mordret a lot of questions when he appears.'

Which wasn't going to happen for many days, sadly.

then, Sunny had other matters to attend

going to appear for a while… so, even though the desire to place his

…Cassie.

He couldn't make plans for

needed to

would be harder after he achieved a higher Rank, being an Ascended also meant that there would be much fewer things out there that

Creatures, but also among the humans. The more crumbs of information about the Sovereigns Sunny learned, the more disturbed he became. He was distrustful by nature, so he

could kill him without breaking a sweat. But if he

Like Saint Tyris.

Dream Realm as he wished.

a nice choice to

the Desecrated Grove

map from the Covetous Coffer, and spent some time adding all the details he remembered from Mordret's map onto it. Soon, he was

his destinations was going to be

route to the Desecrated Grove

by morning, and return to the Sanctuary the next

the coins he

Coffer, stretches his limbs, and headed toward

***

be uneventful. Sunny rode the heavenly chains in the form of the shadow and traversed the islands on