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!"

arrogant

Lost left,

then slowly lowered his gaze and glanced at the food that rolled down

he threw his head back and laughed

I'll be eating this

glow of the runes, two

shape

***

and tasted about the same. Still, this vile

missed the

the easiest food to get was called a "universal ration 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 felt as

Such irony...

without the essence sustaining their

space in the center of the cage 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

cage was cold and chilly, but

lay in silence for a while, trying

did, however, Cassie

"Sunny…"

voice was

how is she doing? Do you

remained silent for a few moments, then said

great. She is a devil already. Now stop bothering

sighed, and didn't say

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 tense up,

then turned around

in a tortured

knowing what to

visions, this one was painful and

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

girl raised her hands and tried to feel her

them, making

You're in a cage in Night Temple.

After a while, Cassie took

"...I'm alright."

go, picked up the mostly empty waterskin, and put it

water and closed