Shadow Slave

1540: Clouded Judgment.

The feeling of restlessness Sunny had felt after leaving Twilight returned. Something strange was going on with Cassie... had been going on for a long time, maybe. He was almost sure of it.

But it was the «almost» of it all that made the situation so difficult. He did not know what to do... confront her? Share his concern with others?

What would he say?

That Cassie should not have survived Twilight? None of them should have survived there, really. That she kept journals? There was nothing wrong with that, and claiming otherwise would only make him seem strange. That she was too quiet and unassuming, which made him feel as if she was hiding something vital from them? That sounded like paranoia talking.

In fact, it was — it was the Sin of Solace whispering into his ear. The Sin of Solace, whose only purpose was to drive him mad. Was he a fool to listen to these whispers?

Sunny was not even sure himself what he was suspecting Cassie of, just that he did not feel comfortable with her secrets. But…

Was it really because there was something off about the blind girl, or was it simply because he had never trusted her? Was he still secretly holding on to the grudge after what she had done on the Forgotten Shore, which painted his perception of her?

Sunny would be lying if he said that he had let go of that grudge completely.

None of the others seemed to suspect Cassie of anything, so why was he the only one looking for faults in her actions?

«Ah, damnation.»

was he supposed

even need to

of old journals? So what if she kept secrets? Was he the right person to blame someone for not being entirely

of what she knew to herself. In fact, Sunny was the reason why she had closed herself off, to begin with — he was the one who had told her how destructive of a poison her visions were...

after that bitter conversation they had in the medical complex of

more than she was letting on, too. She had told him so herself, during one of

why was Sunny reacting so

so close to

nervous that something would ruin their chances of

had never appeared before them, and so, she was as frightening as

a substitute

there was really something ominous going on

she is definitely planning to

smiled, looking at

tray at the sword wraith. The tray passed through the apparition and fell to

The hateful wraith laughed.

benefit of the doubt. ?ìg??օ????????~?օ?. No wonder you ended up being made a slave by her... ah, and she never even apologized. I

at the Sin of Solace, then took a deep

to

resentment toward her. He valued and cared for her, as well, but that was beside the point. Humans were complicated and contradictory creatures, indeed... just like Nephis had said, they could

to find fault with Cassie. But if he flipped his perception and looked at the situation from a different angle, trying to find the opposite, any suspicion that the