Shadow Slave

'Damned sword...'

Making his way into the ruined interior of the temple, Sunny was seething with dark emotions.

What did the Sin of Solace even want? One moment, he was fanning the flames of guilt Sunny might have felt about how he treated Cassie in the past. The next moment, the wraith was reminding him of what had happened, and of how cruelly she had betrayed his trust...

Well, it was perfectly clear what the apparition wanted. The bastard wanted to drive him mad.

And he was... Sunny was mad.

No matter how much he understood why Cassie had done what she did, and no matter how many times he told himself that her actions had ended up saving Rain from being killed by Nightmare Creatures, and him from dying in the Nightmare Desert or becoming Mordret's slave... no matter how many things they had gone through together after the Forgotten Shore and how much their relationship had improved and deepened...

At the bottom of it all, Sunny was still hurt, resentful, and angry at Cassie. While at the same time caring deeply about her.

It was a proper mess...

'What else is new?'

It had been for a while.

"This place... is not creepy at all."

Jumping down from a pile of rubble, Sunny landed in shallow water.

The interior of the lost temple was drowned both by stale water and darkness. Since the island-ship was tilted and partially submerged beneath the waves, the long corridors with high ceilings were tilted as well. The three of them had to walk awkwardly, stepping on the walls with one foot and the cracked floor with the other.

mention that there was rubble everywhere, forcing them to jump or climb over the natural barricades

the situation, it was that none of them was oppressed by the darkness. Sunny could see in it perfectly fine, Cassie did not need sight at all,

think he is trying to say that this

with satisfaction,

at her

Why does she look so smug? It's really not

such

at the front, protected by her

layout of the temple seemed different from the one the blind girl had lived in, but she

Sunny felt that they had descended far enough to be

surroundings, however, were

was because this place had served as a prison for the Defiled sybil for a long, long time before being cut from the rest of the city and

them in fury. Other times, there was dried blood smeared

was not afraid of ghosts. He had

he was afraid

Were the sybils.

want to admit it to himself, he still shuddered when remembering the cold despair of LO49, and the horror of facing its butcher in the depths of

been with Naeve and Bloodwave back then. Today, he was

the champions of the House of Night on paper, Sunny somehow felt more reassured in the company of

three of them had survived far worse

alright to be

was sure that he'll feel better after putting down another one of these

"We are getting closer."

Cassie's words were sobering.