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!"

was clear and strong, full of arrogant confidence… and deep animosity toward the two

the Lost left, once again locking the door behind

glanced at the food that rolled down

his head

I'll be eating this crap

the runes, two colorless tubes of synthpaste

knew their shape all

***

of a 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

had not missed the damned sludge at

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

Such irony...

tired and weak without the essence sustaining their bodies, they

with their backs against each other. With nothing but two layers of thin fabric

was cold and chilly, but at least his back

lay in silence for a while, trying to fall

however, Cassie suddenly

"Sunny…"

voice was quiet

how is she doing? Do you

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

a devil

sighed, and didn't

a sudden change in her breathing. Through the

around

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

knowing what to

Cassie was having a vision, and that like most of her visions, this one was

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

girl raised her hands and tried to feel her

caught one of them, making

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

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

"...I'm alright."

up the mostly empty waterskin, and put

and closed her eyes, her breathing