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…

another word, the Lost left, once again locking the

remained motionless for a few moments, then slowly lowered his gaze and glanced at the food that rolled down the slope of the dome

suddenly, he threw his head back and

oh, gods! Never thought I'll be

glow of the runes, two colorless

their shape all too

***

had the consistency of mud and tasted about the same. Still, this vile invention

missed the damned

ration pack"... or simply a rat pack. It contained a tube of synthpaste, a cheap water filter, and several dry, tasteless crackers. This was what he mostly ate before becoming an Awakened,

Such irony...

weak without the essence sustaining their bodies, they decided to

of the cage was so small that Sunny and Cassie had to settle with their backs against each other. With nothing but two

cold and chilly, but at least

a

however,

"Sunny…"

voice was

is she doing?

for a few moments, then said with no

is doing great. She is a devil

sighed, and didn't say

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

hesitated, then turned around and looked at

white and bloodless. It was contorted in a tortured grimace, with beads of

not knowing what to

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

he could decide, she suddenly sat up with a stifled yelp. Her chest was rising and falling

her hands and tried to feel her surroundings,

of them, making Cassie flinch,

You're in a cage in Night

a while,

"...I'm alright."

go, picked up the mostly empty

the last of their water and closed