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 toward

Lost left, once again locking the door

remained motionless for a few moments, then slowly lowered his gaze and glanced at the food that rolled down the slope

threw his head back

Never thought I'll be

glow of the runes, two

shape

***

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

not missed the damned sludge

pack"... or simply a rat pack. It contained a tube of synthpaste, a cheap water filter, and several dry, tasteless crackers. This was what he mostly ate before becoming an Awakened, so now, Sunny

Such irony...

the

that Sunny and Cassie had to settle with their backs against each other. With nothing but two layers of thin fabric separating their skin, Sunny could feel the heartbeat reverberating

chilly, but at least his

lay in silence for a while, trying to fall

they did, however,

"Sunny…"

voice was quiet and

how is she doing? Do

his eyes closed and remained silent for a few moments,

She is a devil

sighed, and didn't

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 body

around and looked at

a tortured grimace, with beads of

knowing

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

yelp. Her chest was rising and

feel her surroundings,

of them, making Cassie flinch,

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

After a while, Cassie took

"...I'm alright."

picked up the mostly empty waterskin, and put it onto

water and closed her eyes, her breathing