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!"

clear and strong, full of arrogant confidence… and deep

left, once

and glanced at the food that rolled down

suddenly, he threw his head

I'll

blue glow of the runes, two

knew their shape all too

***

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

missed the damned sludge

the 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

Such irony...

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

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

but at least

for a while, trying to fall

did, however, Cassie suddenly

"Sunny…"

voice was quiet and

she doing?

silent for a

is doing great. She is a devil already.

and didn't

disturbed by a sudden change in her breathing. Through

turned around and looked at

bloodless. It was contorted in a tortured grimace, with beads of sweat appearing

knowing

obvious that Cassie was having a vision, and that like most of her visions, this one was painful and terrifying. Was he supposed to wake her up? Or would it do more harm than

suddenly sat up with a stifled yelp. Her chest was

raised her hands and tried to feel her surroundings, clearly not

them, making

damn it. You're in a cage in

grip. After a while, Cassie took a deep

"...I'm alright."

picked up the mostly empty waterskin, and

the last of their water and closed her eyes, her breathing