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

the Lost left, once again

for a few moments, then slowly lowered his gaze and glanced at

suddenly, he threw his head back and laughed

thought I'll be

reflecting the blue glow of the runes, two colorless tubes of synthpaste were lying on the

knew their shape all too

***

and tasted about the same.

had not missed the damned sludge at

a tube of synthpaste, a cheap water

Such irony...

weak without the essence sustaining their bodies,

was so small 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 through her

chilly, but at

silence for a

however, Cassie

"Sunny…"

was

how is she doing? Do you

his eyes closed and remained silent for a few moments, then said with

a devil already.

and didn't

change in her

hesitated, then turned around

face seemed white and bloodless. It was contorted in a tortured grimace, with beads of sweat appearing on

knowing what

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

chest was rising and

hands and tried to feel

of them, making Cassie flinch, and

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

froze, surrendering to his iron grip. After a while, Cassie took a deep breath and

"...I'm alright."

mostly empty waterskin, and put it onto

last of their water and closed her eyes, her breathing slowly returning