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!"

strong, full of arrogant

word, the Lost left, once again

a few moments, then slowly lowered his gaze and glanced at the food that rolled

suddenly, he threw his

Never thought I'll be

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

knew their shape

***

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

not missed the damned

rat pack. It contained a tube of synthpaste, a cheap water filter, and several dry, tasteless crackers. This was what he mostly ate

Such irony...

while, tired and weak without the

so small that Sunny and Cassie had to settle with their backs against each other. With

and chilly, but at least his back

a while, trying to fall

did, however, Cassie suddenly

"Sunny…"

voice was quiet

how is she

and remained silent for a few moments, then

doing great. She is a devil already.

and didn't say anything

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

hesitated, then turned around and looked

a tortured grimace, with beads of sweat appearing on her forehead. Her eyes were

lingered, not knowing

of her visions, this one was

Her chest was rising and falling wildly, and there was a panicked expression

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

caught one of them, making Cassie flinch, and said

You're in a cage in Night Temple. Stop thrashing

froze, surrendering to his iron grip. After a

"...I'm alright."

the mostly empty waterskin, and put

water and closed her eyes, her breathing