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!"

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

the Lost left, once again locking the door

his gaze and glanced at the food that rolled

his head back and laughed

thought I'll be

in front of him, reflecting the blue glow of the runes, two colorless tubes of

knew their shape all

***

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 all

not missed the

of synthpaste, a cheap water filter,

Such irony...

and weak without the essence sustaining

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

was cold and chilly, but at least

a while,

however, Cassie suddenly

"Sunny…"

was quiet

she doing? Do you

kept his eyes closed and remained silent for a few

She is a devil already.

sighed, and didn't say anything

middle of the night — if it was night outside — he suddenly woke up, disturbed by a sudden change in her breathing. Through the thin fabric of

turned around and looked

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

not knowing what to

most of her visions, this one was painful and

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

tried to feel her surroundings, clearly not quite remembering

them, making Cassie flinch, and said

You're in

grip. After a while,

"...I'm alright."

up the mostly empty waterskin, and put it

of their water and