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

Lost left, once again locking

remained motionless for a few moments, then slowly lowered his gaze and glanced at the

he threw his head

Never thought I'll be eating this crap

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

shape all too

***

about the same. Still, this vile invention was cheap to produce and supposed to contain all the

had not missed the damned sludge at

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...

the essence sustaining their

against each other. With nothing but two layers of thin fabric separating

cage was cold and chilly, but at least his back

in silence for a while,

did, however, Cassie suddenly

"Sunny…"

was quiet

she

silent for a few moments, then

a devil already.

and didn't

suddenly woke up, disturbed by a sudden change in her breathing. Through the thin fabric of their clothes, he could feel the blind girl's

hesitated, then turned around

the pale glow of the runes, her delicate face seemed white and bloodless. It was contorted in a tortured grimace, with beads

not knowing

most of her visions, this one was painful and terrifying. Was he supposed to wake

stifled yelp. Her chest was rising and falling wildly, and there was

hands and tried to feel her surroundings, clearly

making Cassie

in a

grip. After a while, Cassie took a deep breath and

"...I'm alright."

go, picked up the mostly empty waterskin, and put it onto her

girl drank the last of their water and closed