Shadow Slave

In the ensuing silence, the smile slowly disappeared from Cassie’s face, replaced by confusion. Feeling the sudden tension, she asked:

“Uh… what’s wrong?”

Sunny sighed.

“No, nothing is wrong. It’s just that that direction is the one we wanted to avoid.”

After some thought, he added:

“That’s where I came from yesterday. There’s a lot of scavengers down there.”

The blind girl’s face fell.

“Oh.”

Nephis, who was quietly listening to them, gave him an indecipherable look and finally spoke:

“Tell us more about the castle.”

A shadow of the previous excitement returned to Cassie’s eyes. With a serious nod, she began describing her vision.

“I dreamt of a vast, ruined city built of weathered stone. It was surrounded by tall, impregnable walls. Various monsters were wandering its narrow streets. In the center of the city, the was a hill, and on that hill stood a magnificent castle.”

She smiled.

“But there were no monsters in the castle! Instead, it was full of people. I think… no, I’m sure that they were Awakened. Some were guarding the walls, some were going about their lives without a care in the world. There was food, safety, and laughter!”

‘Well, that sounds great.’

existed, then all of their problems would be

you see anything

to remember. Then, her face

saw Sunny leading me through the gates of the castle!

so

when talking about reaching the castle, the blind girl only mentioned the two of them. Was there

trying to discern if she had picked up on that little

enigmatic as ever. Without showing much emotion, she thought for a while, and then

we will go

***

for the journey and preparing to abandon the temporary camp. In the process, Sunny had a chance

realization, which almost made his head explode from bafflement. That mind-blowing

formed a certain impression of the confident, distant girl. Later, her behavior and the different revelations about Changing Star’s past only served to

world. She was mysterious, aloof and rather cool. Her taciturn character and strange speech patterns made people interacting with her feel unnerved and rattled, often revealing more than they had been planning to. The less she talked, the more she seemed to know. That silent, indifferent confidence was arresting, and

impression turned out

with being cool and aloof. After talking to her a bit more and observing

how to talk to people. Every time she tried to convey something, she would either use the wrong words or stumble in the middle of the sentence and fall silent. Her

It’s not that she didn’t have feelings: it’s just that she was really bad at emoting them! As a

of the time, she simply chose to talk as little as possible or not to talk at

together, then multiplied by her general weirdness, was ultimately responsible

was just shy and completely

still failed to stop himself from staring at Nephis with wide eyes. He

the hell? That’s not in line with how a

be the main character of any event. At the center stage, there were always confident, strong people like her and Caster. People

social skills did not mean that she was not strong. In fact, it