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.’

castle really existed, then all of their problems

you see anything

trying to remember.

gates

appeared on her doll-like face, beaming with so

detail of Cassie’s vision. It was that, when talking about reaching the castle, the blind girl only mentioned the two of them. Was there

glanced at Nephis, trying

as ever. Without showing much emotion, she thought for a

Then we will go

***

sea was still retreating, they had their breakfast and then spent some time planning for the journey and preparing to abandon the temporary camp. In the process, Sunny had a chance

that he came to a sudden realization, which almost made his head explode from bafflement. That

had formed a certain impression of the confident, distant girl. Later, her behavior and the different revelations about Changing

feel unnerved and rattled, often revealing more than they had been

turned out to be completely

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

to convey something, she would either use the wrong words or stumble in the middle of the sentence and fall

openly showing her emotions. It’s not that she didn’t have feelings: it’s just that she was really bad at emoting them! As a result,

to talk as little

up together, then multiplied by her general weirdness, was

was just shy and

with all his might but still failed to stop himself from staring at Nephis with wide

not in line with how a protagonist

event. At the center stage, there were always confident, strong people like her and Caster. People like himself and Cassie, on the

Changing Star had problems with expressing herself and lacked social skills did not mean that she was not strong. In fact, it might have meant the opposite. She still achieved everything that she had achieved,