Shadow Slave

Chapter 1558

Sunny stared at Cassie, struggling to believe how deep the roots of her mysterious scheme went. He noted recently that the blind girl's personality changed drastically after the cruel words he had thrown at her at the underground level of the Academy's medical complex, right after the Forgotten Shore.

That was when she had begun to weave her spiderweb, most likely.

Looking at the young woman sitting across from him, meeting his gaze with dark and defiant pride, he felt a chill running down his spine.

'...Which one of us is worthy of being called the heir of Weaver, even?'

Cassie had just as high of an affinity to fate as him, after all, if not higher.

He took a deep breath, feeling stifled.

"Yes... it was back then. Looking back, it didn't make a lot of sense, did it? You had just been burned by blindly believing a vision of yours, to catastrophic results. And yet, you seemed to not question the validity of us dying come winter, even though that vision of yours could only be called vague, at best."

Cassie had seen the two of them falling into a bottomless abyss, surrounded by snow. She told Sunny that they would die in the winter... but, in the end, the events of that vision happened in November, when the Night Temple was destroyed in a terrible battle between Sky Tide and Saint Cormac.

"You already knew that it did not mean our deaths. And yet, you made me think otherwise. But... why?"

eyes widened, a flash of frightening understanding illuminating

it was because I was planning to challenge the Second Nightmare in the winter. But you needed me to move the plan forward, and aim to reach the Seed in the Ivory Tower by the end of autumn. What changed because I listened to your vision and adjusted the timing of

ignited in the depths

Which meant that he wouldn't have been able to stop Mordret from escaping

him without saying anything. But she did not need to... once Sunny pulled on the thread, the tangled web of her hidden actions started to unravel itself. All he needed to do to understand all of it โ€” or at least most of it โ€” was

agony the two of them endured in the Night Temple, side by

You must have learned of his existence before he even learned of yours, when you were anchored at the Night Temple โ€” even though neither you nor your cohort were allowed to enter the inner parts of the Citadel. Later, you left

had come very close to dying in the cage of the Valor's secretive Citadel. Knowing that she had expected the mad prince of the great clan to escape, and for them to be embroiled in the horror that followed his release, made it all seem even

herself. By then, he had already been an Awakened Monster, and armed with the power of his Divine Aspect, he had a

multiple soul cores or an Aspect that could augment her endurance and

his head in stunned silence, he said

why did

rather than later, and do it in the company of the Prince of Nothing, as well. ๐ฅรฌg๐š๐”ซึ…๐‘ฃ๐“ฎ๐“ตw๐“ธ๐“ป๐ฅ๐“ญ~๐™˜ึ…๐•ž. The very fact of his escape had put a crack in the potential relationship Sunny could have had with the great clan Valor... putting him in conflict with

into accepting their terms and becoming an adopted daughter of

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