Shadow Slave

Eventually, the four of them were invited into the room where Nephis slept… this time on a hospital bed instead of inside of a closed coffin of a sleeping pod. The administrators of the Academy wanted to avoid any more damage, so asking the members of Changing Star's cohort for help was a logical step.

Seeing familiar faces first after waking up would probably calm her down. And if not… having four Masters at hand would be enough to deal with any unforeseen complications.

Most likely...

Sunny stood in the corner, looking at Nephis with a somber expression. Her pale face, her silver hair. For the past two years, he had often seen her through the transparent lid of the sleeping pod, bathed in its ghostly light. Now that she was out and returned to the real world, Changing Star seemed much more… material. And strangely vulnerable.

She was truly back.

He sighed.

Cassie was sitting on a chair beside the bed, while Effie and Kai were resting on a sofa. None of them knew when Neph was going to wake up, and they had already spent a couple hours waiting. Without having to discuss it, all four decided to stay quiet. So… by now, they were pretty bored.

Sunny, on the other hand, was filled with more and more tension.

The corner of his mouth twitched.

'This anticipation is killing me. It's pure torture.'

the clever ways he had thought of to undermine her absolute authority as his master. There were always ways... owning an unwilling slave was not an easy endeavor. Especially one as powerful and

had been one of the reasons why he had chosen to kill the Mirror Beast

Sunny could not help but feel a

a while, he shook his head and moved slightly. Then, without being noticed by anyone, Sunny silently merged

dark embrace, he hesitated for a few moments, and then called upon Nightmare. A vast shadow appeared near him, all around him… this was the dark destrier in his true,

enveloped by the larger shadow, and then gave it a silent command. What happened next…

only done this a few times in the past, and each time was as strange. It was a

travel to Neph's dreams. There was no sense in prolonging his anxious anticipation, anyway. He

found himself on a

was a vertical slope, with furious waves crashing against the cliffs far below. Some distance away, a tall and beautiful

cliff. Sitting in the saddle, he rode the black steed and tried not to look around

real world and

as Nightmare and Sunny. The threats contained within them might not have been real, but by invading this subliminal space, the uninvited guests had to treat them

dreamt of a powerful abomination, the dark destrier had to battle the abomination as if it was real. However, not

So her nightmares

the landscape around them changed. The dark shore and the lighthouse disappeared, and instead, the streets of a ruined city appeared from nowhere. With a bit of apprehension, Sunny recognized the familiar shapes of the stone buildings of the Dark City. However, they were simultaneously the alloy towers of the Siege Capital. Their facades

a luxurious PTV lay overturned some distance away, its armored frame bent and

jumped off Nightmare's back. After hesitating for a moment,

these people lacked faces,

surroundings. It did not take him long to notice a