Shadow Slave

Visiting the Southern Island was not as useful as Sunny had hoped it would be. Too much time had passed since the days when Nightmare guarded the abandoned castle, consumed by madness. The castle had long turned into ruins, and the land itself had been transformed by the Crushing.

However... Sunny did end up finding a clue. That clue was not on the island, but rather in what was not on the island - when he had visited this place as a favor to Noctis, there had been beautiful white flowers blooming in the emerald grass around the castle. But now they were gone.

Of course, there was nothing strange about some flowers disappearing after thousands of years of desolation. Nevertheless, Sunny remembered that he had seen these particular flowers elsewhere on the Chained Isles - there was a whole island covered by them.

That island was considered extremely dangerous because there were numerous bones hidden beneath the beautiful carpet of white blossoms. Anyone who stepped on it would succumb to an overwhelming desire to sleep, never to wake up. Among the Awakened anchored in the Sanctuary, that island was synonymous with death.

There were too many connections for it to be a pure coincidence, and so, Sunny decided to visit the island of white flowers as well.

It was further east, however, so that stop was going to have to wait. First, the flying ship had to travel north and skirt the Tear for a while to reach the Shipwreck Island.

They spent two days making their way there. The ship had to stop once to give Cassie time to rest and restore soul essence. In the meantime, the rest of them made use of the idle time to enjoy some peace and quiet.

The ancient vessel turned into a leisure yacht for a few days. Nephis was in charge of cooking, while the rest of them were in charge of eating - they talked, enjoyed each other's company, and tried really hard to forget the cold dread of Antarctica for a few fleeting moments.

They even tried playing several games... sadly, it was hard to find a suitable one, considering that Kai always knew when someone was telling the truth, Cassie could sense the future, and Sunny was not above using his shadows to cheat.

In the end, they settled for competing to see who was the best cheater.

every game after that. Observing her try to hide

is. She's hiding it well these

than what a normal person would eat, naturally... luckily,

was teaching Sunny how

actually starting to feel

they reached

was exactly as it had been before, except for the fact that the feature that

Sun

tangled in the remains of a torn heavenly chain. The first time Sunny had seen it, he wondered about what

had been someone else... but in the Nightmare, the

time. She had never seen it before,

a while,

of the

from

where we fought the defenders of the Ivory City. The city itself is gone now, but that huge bastard is still here. See how his

her head, while Effie

was filled with molten metal. Within that metal was a human-shaped cage... and within that cage was a thing that had once been a human. lіghtnоvеlcave․c~оm. I pushed the bastard over the edge of

a disgusted face, then

just need to bring you to what is left of the Sun

Sunny shook his head.