Shadow Slave

By the time Sunny returned with Jet, Cassie had already explained the situation to Nephis as best as she could. That had already saved him some time - not that it mattered during this revolution.

For now, his goal was to get Cassie up to speed.

As they left the Chain Breaker and headed toward the bone orchard, Sunny started to describe the perils of Wind Flower to her in detail. Jet and Nephis listened, too, growing grimmer with each minute.

"The Devouring Beast is here as well?"

Hearing Jet's somber question, Sunny nodded.

She lingered for a moment.

"Who is Devouring Beast, though?"

'Oh...'

Soul Reaper only knew who Undying Slaughter was because they had met. She had no concept of who the Six Plagues were, and no explanation to how a Defiled version of her could exist on the island.

Sunny explained the things briefly... not that he knew much more than her.

"...We don't know how they exist, or why. These future versions of ourselves are known as the Six Heralds of the Estuary, of the Six Plagues. And two of them are here, on the island - the future version of you, and the future version of Effie."

He lingered for a moment before adding:

"We also don't know how the two of them ended up here. My theory is that they were exiled to Wind Flower to contain their Flaws, but... it's just conjecture."

Jet's face remained impassive. She nodded silently and did not say anything about his indirect castigation of her Flaw.

her personal curse was so terrible that even the Nightmare Creatures had chosen to banish her corrupted

was listening to him attentively, seemingly not

of knowledge. Before they went about creating the pikes and the javelins, he drew a crude map of the

here. For now, I have found no way to get to her and return to the

Nephis, and Jet studied

moments of

considered leaving the island with Jet and returning to the loop

hesitated for a while. Eventually, he shook his

map. In reality, I have no idea which side of the island faces which direction. Navigating to Effie's side won't be easy, and it is not even a given that

turned

choosing. We have gotten incredibly lucky the first time, actually. That beach where we landed is one of the

Sunny sighed.

a question. We can only leave at the end of the day, when the Crown of Twilight provides me with essence... but if we return to the same point in time, Effie will already be lost. In

contemplated for a short while, then

and even learned a lot about most Nightmare Creatures here.

a few moments,

those that our powers directly counter. The rest are too dreadful for us to fight. So, we can only advance by hiding and timing our movements perfectly. And

girl was studying the map. For a moment, Sunny was reminded of how strange the situation was... Cassie could not see, so she was simply pretending to look at the map. She seemed to have developed a habit of imitating the actions of those who had

the map through the

with a bit of hope

when I was the only one with the detailed knowledge of the loop. Now that there are two of us, the

not answer for

she slowly shook her

"No. It won't change."

aback. He stared at her tensely,