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!"

of arrogant confidence… and deep animosity

Lost left, once

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

his head back and laughed

oh, gods! Never thought I'll be eating this crap

in front of him, reflecting the blue glow of the

their shape

***

late supper, which consisted 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

not missed the damned sludge at

cheap water filter, and several dry, tasteless crackers. This was what he

Such irony...

the essence sustaining their bodies,

cage was so small that Sunny and Cassie had to settle with their backs against each other. With nothing but

but at least his back was

in silence for a while, trying

however, Cassie

"Sunny…"

was quiet and

how is she

remained silent for a few

a devil already. Now stop bothering

sighed, and didn't say anything

woke up, disturbed by a sudden change in her breathing. Through the

around and looked at

It was contorted in a tortured grimace, with beads of sweat appearing on her

knowing what

that Cassie was having a vision, and that like most of her visions, this one was painful and terrifying. Was he supposed to wake her up?

she suddenly sat up with a stifled yelp. Her chest was rising and falling wildly, and there was a panicked expression

girl raised her hands and tried to feel her surroundings, clearly not quite remembering where she

of them, making

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

his iron grip. After a while, Cassie took a

"...I'm alright."

go, picked up the mostly empty

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