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.

that there was rubble everywhere, forcing them to jump or

the situation, it was that none of them was oppressed by the darkness. Sunny could see in it perfectly fine, Cassie did

think he is trying to say that this place

him and smiled with satisfaction, proud to have understood his

stared at

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

was such a

into the temple. Cassie was walking at the

layout of the temple seemed different from the one the blind girl had lived

were moving deeper and deeper into the labyrinth of half-collapsed corridors. Sunny felt that they had descended far enough to be underwater by now... nevertheless, the ancient temple must have retained some structural integrity,

surroundings, however, were

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

cracked walls, as if someone had clawed at them in fury. Other times, there was dried blood smeared across the old stone. The whole temple seemed

course, Sunny was not afraid of ghosts. He

he was afraid of,

Were the sybils.

the cold despair of LO49, and the horror of facing its butcher in the depths of

and Bloodwave back then. Today, he was

Night on paper,

of them had

to be

was sure that he'll feel better after putting down another one of these Defiled oracles with his own

"We are getting closer."

Cassie's words were sobering.