Shadow Slave

He sat back down, waited for a while, and then turned to Cassie:

"Did you take a look at her Attributes?"

She sat down, too, and sighed.

"Yes. Her, the four Lost with her. Sir Pierce, too. I also saw the name and Rank of their Aspects."

Sunny frowned.

"What? Since when can you read Aspects, too?"

The blind girl shrugged.

"Since my Awakening."

He stared at her for a bit.

'What a useful Ability…'

In worse news, if she had not known some of his secrets before, she surely knew them now.

'...How infuriating.'

Sunny grimaced, lingered for a bit, and then said:

"Good. Chances are, we'll need that information before all of this is over."

He didn't press her for answers yet, since there was a lot he had to think about.

Some more time passed with both of them remaining silent. After a while, the door of the chamber opened once more, and the familiar four Lost entered. The one with a bandaged head was carrying a tray of food and a waterskin.

He studied them for a few moments, a cold expression on his handsome face, and then threw the food and the waterskin through the iron bars without approaching the cage.

Sunny suppressed his anger and opened his mouth, assuming the persona of a cowardly researcher:

"Hey! Sir… uh… sir Awakened! Can you tell us what is going on? Please, we don't even know what is wrong!"

The sentinel glanced at him darkly and spat in a commanding tone:

"Silence!"

voice was clear and strong, full of arrogant confidence… and

another word, the Lost left, once again locking the door

and glanced at the food that rolled down the slope of the dome

his head back

gods! Never thought I'll be eating this crap

in front of him, reflecting the blue glow of the runes, two

knew their shape

***

paste that had the consistency of mud and tasted about the same. Still, this vile invention was cheap to

the damned

of synthpaste, a cheap water filter, and several dry, tasteless crackers. This was what he mostly ate before becoming an Awakened, so now, Sunny felt as though his life had

Such irony...

tired and weak without the essence sustaining their bodies, they decided

was so small that Sunny and Cassie had to settle with their backs against each

cold and chilly, but at

for a while, trying to

however, Cassie suddenly

"Sunny…"

voice was quiet and

how is she

eyes closed and remained silent for a few moments, then said with

is a devil already.

didn't say anything

the middle of the night — if it was night outside — he suddenly woke up, disturbed by a sudden change in her breathing. Through the thin fabric of

then turned around and looked

bloodless. It was contorted in a tortured grimace, with beads of sweat appearing on her forehead. Her eyes were moving hectically

not knowing what

Cassie was having a vision, and that like most of her visions, this one was painful and terrifying. Was he supposed to wake

stifled yelp. Her chest was rising and falling

and tried to feel her

one of them, making Cassie flinch,

of yourself, damn it. You're in a cage in Night Temple. Stop

surrendering to his iron grip. After a while, Cassie took a deep breath

"...I'm alright."

the mostly empty waterskin,

the last of their water and closed