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

Lost left, once again locking the door

glanced at the food that

his head back

gods! Never thought I'll

in front of him, reflecting the blue glow of the runes, two colorless tubes

their shape

***

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

had not missed the damned sludge at

ration pack"... or simply a rat pack. It contained a tube of synthpaste, a cheap water filter, and

Such irony...

the essence

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

chilly, but

silence for a while, trying to

they did, however, Cassie suddenly

"Sunny…"

was quiet and

she

closed and remained silent for a few moments, then said

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

and didn't

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

hesitated, then turned around

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

knowing what to

of her visions, this one was painful and

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

feel her surroundings,

caught one of them, making

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

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

"...I'm alright."

let her go, picked up the mostly empty waterskin, and put

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