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!"

arrogant confidence… and deep animosity toward the two

left, once again locking the

his gaze and glanced at the food that rolled down the slope of the dome to his

his

thought I'll be eating this

of him, reflecting the blue glow of the runes, two colorless tubes of synthpaste were

knew their shape all too

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which consisted of a synthetic paste that had the consistency of mud and tasted about the same. Still, this vile invention was cheap

not missed the damned sludge at

easiest food to get was called a "universal 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, so now, Sunny felt as though his life had come full

Such irony...

tired and weak without the essence sustaining their

that Sunny and Cassie had to settle with their backs against each other. With nothing but two layers of thin fabric separating their skin, Sunny

chilly, but at least his

for a while, trying

however,

"Sunny…"

was

she doing?

silent for a

doing great. She is a devil

and didn't say anything

a sudden change in her breathing. Through the thin fabric of their clothes, he could feel the blind girl's body tense up, her

then turned around and looked

in a tortured grimace, with beads of sweat appearing on her

knowing what

vision, and that like most of her visions, this one was

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

hands and tried to feel her surroundings, clearly not quite

them, making Cassie flinch, and

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

a while, Cassie took a deep breath and

"...I'm alright."

let her go, picked up the mostly

blind girl drank the last of their water and closed her