Shadow Slave

Chapter 789

Nephis looked in the window and remained silent for a while. Her face was distant and still. After a while, she lightly shook her head.

"No… not yet."

Cassie seemed to be surprised by that answer.

"No? But… why?"

Changing Star sighed.

"The… Fire Keepers. That is what people call the Awakened who follow you, right? They all look up to me, do they not?"

The blind girl silently nodded.

"Of course! We… they have been waiting for your return ever since escaping the Forgotten Shore. Even though the Dreamer Army was an alliance of convenience, the bonds that were forged between its members are real. Their bond to you is real, too."

Sunny sipped his coffee with a strange expression. Neph, meanwhile, lingered for a moment, and then said:

"But they want more than just to welcome me back. They expect me to lead them, like I did on the Forgotten Shore. Am I correct?"

Cassie nodded once again.

Neph looked away.

"How can I lead them when I don't know where I am going? I… I need more time to figure things out before I face them."

The blind girl remained silent for a while, then sighed.

"I… I understand. I think."

meanwhile, did not

do, so she could not offer the remnants of the Dreamer Army guidance. She could not become their general again until she decided on

More than that, she had spent two whole years alone in the Dream Realm… if he knew anything about her, he knew that she must have dedicated a considerable amount of that time to obsessively making plans of how to destroy her enemies

That had to change her

was she

know, and was not sure that he wanted to know… yet. In any case, he was going to

something else that bothered him,

and Cassie and then said,

agreed that Nephis would stay here for a week. Shouldn't you at least ask me before deciding to leave her

let Changing Star pull off

unreadable expression. After a few

I stay for a couple

then

Glad to have you, and all that. See, was that so

***

about the state of the Fire Keepers and the renovations they were making to the Immortal Flame manor, and then left. Running a prominent Awakened organization was not an easy task,

were

few moments, and

never really had one, more or less, before buying this house. But if I did, I

at him, then

not really my home. We were moving a lot while I was growing up. Sometimes because our financial situation changed,

for a

me that created the feeling of home. But they are all gone now, one way or the other.

sighed, remembering the conversation

honest. And who those

Changing Star nodded.

the immediate family, the clan also encompassed hundreds of other people. Professionals to manage our properties, craftsmen, mundane soldiers, Awakened retainers, their dependents… a Legacy

silent,

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