Shadow Slave
Chapter 570
Sunny looked at the stream of blood that was getting closer and closer to the cage, then glanced back at the door and waited, wondering if someone… or something… would burst through it and enter the cell.
But nothing did. After that first loud bang, everything stayed eerily quiet. Seconds passed, then minutes. Finally, he slowly turned away from the door and looked at Cassie.
"Do you smell it?"
She lingered for a moment, then nodded.
"...Blood."
Sunny remained motionless for a bit, then walked back to his usual place and sat down. His face was grim. After a while, he said in a dark tone:
"We are going to need to start rationing water."
Humans could survive for a long time without food, but water… water was much more precious. Without it, a healthy human could die in a matter of days.
And there were very few more agonizing ways to go.
Cassie turned her head, then asked somberly:
"Why? Do you think that they are going to just leave us here?"
Sunny opened his mouth to retorn that she was the one who could see the future. But in the end, he held his tongue.
"...Just in case."
Awakened, they would also be able to last longer without water than mundane humans — especially Sunny, whose body was
that be long
was no way
his eyes and exhaled slowly, then tried
gone, it was impossible to tell what day it was. Sunny and Cassie remained in the barely illuminated darkness alone, waiting for something to happen, or slept
their water ran out. The waterskin
...Then, came the thirst.
days — at least he thought that a few had passed — without drinking anything, he learned that there was a completely different realm
feeling of thirst was absolutely maddening, torturous, and suffocating. His throat hurt as if it was being cut, his lips had dried and cracked, and so did his tongue. His head was full of pulsating pain, and his muscles were experiencing excruciating cramps. All he could think about
like a dog, forgotten and discarded. Maybe one day someone would open the heavy door, and find his desiccated corpse
had tried everything he could think of to get out of the cage, but nothing he had done
starting to blur. Sunny spent most of his time staring at the orange flame of the oil lamp, because it was more or
Then, it disappeared, too.
the ghostly, dim glow of the runes
'...The oil ran out.'
Sunny closed his eyes.
Was it really hopeless?
couldn't give
sane was the fact that Cassie was right there with him, going through the same hell. At
pain with someone had made if not bearable, then at least a little easier. Neither of them would have been able to endure the agony and the terror of not knowing whether they were going to live or die, the fear of the unknown, alone. But together, the two of them managed to persevere, somehow. Maybe just
passed since the flame of the oil lantern died out. Time lost its meaning a while ago. All he knew was the thirst, the
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