Shadow Slave novel Chapter 2877

Some time later, Mordret was leaning on the wall in the circular hall containing the stone archway. The Princess of Shadows was on the lower floors of the Ebony Tower, looking around. He had cleaned the floor, so it was as spotless as before.

There was also a foldable army cot in the hall now, on which Song of the Fallen was laying, unconscious.

“Really, now... this woman is going to sleep through the end of the world”

Well, maybe not the end of the world. But the end of the Longing Domain, for sure.

At that moment, finally, the blind seer stirred. Mordret could not see if she had opened her eye because of the bloodied blindfold covering it, but he was pretty sure she was awake now. 𝙛𝓻𝒆𝓮𝒘𝙚𝙗𝒏𝙤𝙫𝓮𝒍.𝓬𝒐𝙢

Song of the Fallen... Cassia... sat up slowly and leaned on the wall, facing him. Her face was expressionless.

“How long was I out?"

Her tone was even, too.

Mordret smirked.

‘Talk about spending too much time with Changing Star...’

Was the inability to emote infectious?

He shrugged.

“A few hours."

Reading a silent question on her motionless face, he added:

"It's all over. Nightingale surrendered Ravenheart to Seishan and her sisters... he is being tortured now. It's not pretty. Raised by Wolves, meanwhile, is chained in a stone cell underneath Mirage Castle. I think they are planning to starve her. That is probably going to be even harder to stomach."

Mordret smiled, amused by the pun, then shook his head.

"There are a few people here and there who have proved to be highly resistant or even immune to the plague — they are being cleansed as we speak. But those who are too valuable, like your friends, are not that lucky. The Dreamspawn is going to weaken and drive them to the edge first, all to compromise their resistance and take them when they're ready to give up."

He sighed.

"Good old torture never goes out of fashion, it seems. Well, you'd know better. Poor Thane... of all the Saints in existence, Changing Star just had to go off on the most harmless one."

Cassie lowered her head and fell silent, seemingly trying to cope with the dreadful weight of defeat.

Mordet chuckled and raised his hands, clapping slowly.

“Wow. And I thought myself a good actor... you really are a talent, Song of the Fallen. But, please, enough with the theatrics. No need to act so surprised."

Cassie sighed.

“Whatever do you mean?"

Mordret gave her a bright smile, even though she could not see it.

“Oh, it's just that I couldn't help but notice the manner in which you arrived at the Ebony Tower. That archway was built by Nether, you know? And Nether was a daemon of a very practical sort. Instead of building a Gateway between his temporary workshop and the Ivory Tower, he simply patched into an existing network of local pathways that Hope had created in her kingdom. Local being the key word... this archway was supposed to remain inoperable while the Tower of Hope was away from the Chained Isles, but somehow, it wasn't."

He shook his head.

“Which means that you modified the runic circle of the archway on the Ivory Island, at some point, well in advance. Which means that you had already predicted what would happen if Changing Star and the Lord of Shadows failed to do whatever it is they were trying to do, and prepared an escape route. Which means that you already knew that the Longing Domain would fall. So, no matter how good your acting is, this surprised act... really fails to look convincing."

Mordret looked at her with an amused smile.

“What are they doing, by the way? Changing Star and the Lord of Shadows."

Cassia remained motionless for a few moments, tracing her hand across the cot to figure out what she was sitting on.

“I don't know. I don't remember."

Mordret chuckled.

"Oh? I see... you must have erased your own memories of knowing, then. How thorough. Well, it doesn't really matter anymore. Whatever it was that they hoped to achieve, they are already too late."

Cassia did not seem to agree, but she did not say anything to contradict him. Mordret stopped smiling.

“You really are a terrifying witch, you know? No diviner, not even you, can see the future anymore. And yet, you still predicted everything that would happen, to a tee."

She stayed quiet for a short while, then said reluctantly:

“Not everything”

Mordret studied her somberly.

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