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.

to jump or climb over the natural barricades obstructing their

by the darkness. Sunny could see in it perfectly fine, Cassie did not need sight at all, while Nephis was capable

think he is trying to say that this place is really

looked at him and smiled with satisfaction, proud

at her

smug? It's really not

such a weirdo

temple. Cassie was walking at the front, protected by her Echoes. Nephis and Sunny were in the

one the blind girl had lived in, but she seemed to know the

deeper and deeper into the labyrinth of half-collapsed corridors. Sunny felt that they had descended far enough to

surroundings, however,

the eerie feeling of something influencing the future. It was because this place had served as a prison for the Defiled sybil for a long,

time, Sunny noticed strange marks on the cracked walls, as if someone had clawed at them in fury. Other times, there was

afraid of ghosts. He had slain enough ghosts

he was afraid

Were the sybils.

himself, he still shuddered when remembering the cold despair of LO49, and

Naeve and Bloodwave back

though the two of them were weaker than the champions of the House of Night on paper, Sunny somehow

three of them had

to

another one of these Defiled oracles with his own

"We are getting closer."

Cassie's words were sobering.