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!"

and strong, full of arrogant confidence… and deep animosity

the Lost left, once

and glanced at the food that

he threw his head

Never thought I'll be eating this

the runes,

shape all

***

of mud and tasted about the same. Still, this vile invention was cheap to produce

missed the damned

synthpaste, a cheap water filter, and several dry, tasteless crackers. This was what he mostly ate before becoming an Awakened, so now, Sunny felt as though his life had come full

Such irony...

a while, tired and weak without the essence sustaining their bodies, they

backs against each other. With nothing

cold and chilly, but

lay in silence for a while, trying to fall

did, however,

"Sunny…"

voice was

is she doing? Do you

eyes closed and remained silent for a few moments, then

great. She is a devil already. Now

sighed, and didn't say

— 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 blind girl's

turned around and looked at

pale glow of the runes, her delicate face seemed white and bloodless. It was contorted in a tortured grimace, with beads of sweat appearing on her forehead.

knowing what

her visions, this one was painful and terrifying. Was he supposed to wake

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

her hands and tried to feel her surroundings, clearly

them, making Cassie

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

a while, Cassie took a deep breath and

"...I'm alright."

mostly

the last of their water and