Shadow Slave

Sunny left the old woman alone and returned to where Nephis was resting, full of thought. He had not received all the answers he wanted from Ananke, but at the same time, he learned a lot... maybe even too much.

'Ah, I don't know.'

There was too much information, all of it fragmented, ambiguous, and confusing. Not only that, but he was not even sure that it could be trusted.

In any case, many mysteries he had never hoped to solve were resolved now. Like the destruction of the Forgotten Shore - it had become collateral damage in the war between the daemons and the gods. Or the identity of the nameless prisoner of the ruined cathedral - it was one of the first two apostles chosen by Weaver to tend to and spread the Nightmare Spell... whoever these apostles had been.

Sunny even had more context for why the followers of War God had been destroying the temples of Shadow God in his First Nightmare, and what empire Auro of the Nine was a soldier of.

Still... he had even more questions now.

Like always.

'...My head hurts.'

He was saying these words a lot in this Nightmare.

Sunny sighed, then looked at Nephis.

"What do you think?"

With how obsessed she was with destroying the Spell, the revelations about its origin and presumed purpose had to have shaken her... and maybe even her conviction.

But Nephis simply shrugged.

"Makes sense."

He raised an eyebrow.

"Huh?"

She looked at him and remained silent for a moment.

purpose is tied somehow

her calm face. She seemed as composed as

doesn't change anything for

at

the Spell was designed to destroy countless futures for the sake of a future that Weaver envisioned, and fuel it with the

the frail figure of Ananke. Luckily, it didn't seem like she

Nephis gritted her teeth.

into your home, kills your family, and takes everything you have from you... does it really matter if the

Sunny sighed.

see

"I guess it depends."

looked at

"Depends? On what?"

few moments, collecting his

are they, exactly? Would Corruption have spread to the waking world eventually, even without the Spell, or not? Things like

him for a while, then turned away with a

reasonable... but humans weren't. That included him, as

someone murdered Rain to save an entire neighborhood,

else, looking somberly at the Great River. Eventually, it was Nephis who broke

about something else,

her and raised

"What?"

She frowned slightly.

Ananke's elders entered the Tomb of Ariel and lost contact with the outside world? How did the war escalate even further? What could have happened to cause

eyes glinted

conclusion of the war? How has it

sudden chill as he remembered

both sides, Weaver disappeared. No one knew where Weaver went

white light burning in her eyes, Nephis looked at him and

you ever think that, maybe, the Nightmare Spell is not only responsible for the devastation of

a while,