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 confidence… and deep animosity toward the two of

left, once again locking

slowly lowered his gaze and glanced at the food that

suddenly, he threw his head back and

thought I'll be eating this

of the runes, two

shape

***

synthetic paste that had the consistency of mud and tasted about the same. Still, this vile invention was cheap to produce and supposed to contain all the nutrients one needed to — barely —

not missed the damned sludge at

pack. It contained a tube of synthpaste, a cheap water

Such irony...

and weak without the essence sustaining

against each other. With nothing but two layers of thin fabric separating their skin, Sunny could

and chilly, but at

a while, trying to

however,

"Sunny…"

voice was quiet and

she doing?

closed and remained silent for a few moments, then said with no particular

is doing great. She is a devil already. Now stop

didn't say

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

then turned around

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

not knowing what

this one was painful and terrifying. Was he supposed to wake her up? Or would it do more

up with a stifled yelp. Her chest was rising and falling wildly, and

to feel her surroundings, clearly

of them, making Cassie flinch,

You're in a cage in Night

froze, surrendering to his iron grip. After a while, Cassie took a deep breath

"...I'm alright."

mostly empty waterskin, and put it onto

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