Hope, The Daemon of Hope& Desire.
She held Powers upon dreams , emotions, and passion.
No Daemon had a good name among the inhabitants of the Mortal realms except Hope. She was revered as the kindest of divines . Her power ridding people of suffering in her kingdom .
Yet Hope was the greatest poison.
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In the Chained Isles;
Sunlight glimmered on the emerald grass of the Ivory Tower.
Nephis sat on the grass, focusing on her runes.
Valor had not let her Idle , she had been forced to help in subjugation campaigns along with the Fire Keepers.
They were soon going to send her to Antarctica as a tool in the war that would follow.
Scrolling through her memories she reached the part where her runes ended. But the runes didn't end here as what would follow was Sunny's runes.
Whenever she saw the tag [Slave : Sunless] inexplicable feelings rose in her. Despite what she appeared on the outside.
Even thinking about how she felt about Sunny, their bond, her feelings was difficult, too difficult in fact. So she chose to ignore it. Ignorance was enough for her until now.
After all , she had ambition,great goals that she wanted to achieve, only after them , those goals, her revenge and reaching the end of her plans. Did she decide care about anything else .
In the eternal hell of the Nightmare Desert, Sunny's runes had what kept going when even her ambition failed. She had a habit of going through them , though a little guilty for invading his privacy .
Last time since when sunny had asked for help using those runes.
She had gotten another reason to do so , so she kept checking them , in case an emergency rose and Sunny contacted her once again . After all Antartica was a perilous place and Sunny had a habit of inviting disasters to him through fate.
But now when she did it . What met her was only an empty void. There was nothing there , 'No Runes', 'No Tag', 'No Name' . " No Sunless".
Immediately an intense panic gripped her after all , it had been an anchor for respite, one made her know about sunny's condition.
Yet now it was gone .
She tried rubbing her eyes , summoned & desummoned her runes multiple times , but the runes showed no changes.
The state lasted only a matter of seconds for she was accomplished fighter with calculative brain.
What came to her were several possibilities or events that could transpire this.
"It could be a nightmare creature that could sever the connection me and sunny"
There were only unimaginable horrors roaming antartica, he could have just met a more fierce one that could sever their connection.
There was another possibility.
"Maybe Sunny found a way to end the shadow bond" In this mystical world , there were many unknowns and considering Sunny , he surely could encounter events that others would not .
"It could be something like A Divine Memory"
Fate had gifted Sunny two whole divine memories. One could even reverse someone's flaw, manipulating an absolute law of existence.
So surely he could have gotten one that could sever the bond between them.
"If that was the case, then she could only be glad for him"
More scenarios came to her like Sunny being forced to travel to the Dream realm through the call of a gate. Parts of the Dream realm were horrific and possessed mystical properties.
'Maybe he would once again boast about his adventures to her' Though alone in a stranded region would be very dangerous.
She had heard reports of Awakened coming back as masters after being forced to accept the call of a gate and getting stranded in a region of the dream realm and then challenging a nightmare seed . Though it was a case of intense luck & fortune.
There was another possibility. Too dreadful and foreign for her to think about. Rather she wanted it not to even be considered.
After all if there was one way, the shadow bond could be definitely broken. It was through the death of one of the participants of the bond.
How could shadow bond work if the there was no master or no slave.
'Surely , not'.
Getting news about what was happening in Antartica was not too easy. The online media would only implore the government propaganda as instructed .
And as far she knew , nothing was going well there.
Despite coming up with various reasons to calm herself down . A weight was still upon her mind and heart. After all there were inexplicable feelings hidden inside her that she did not yet accept.
She made her way to Cassie . The blind seer may be only be the one who knew .
Ever since Nephis returned to the waking world , Nephis had found her distant . Even though she was still the same Cassie , there was something different about her.
At first she deemed it a change due to what transpired between her and Sunny.
But nowadays she was feeling that the Blind Seer knew everything . She could always accurately answer problems and predict the outcome . That was her aspect , but she also felt that the Seer knew too much about the future. And was always hiding something.
Though she suppressed it , the thoughts did came that What if the Seer had betrayed her?
Just like she told sunny's secret to her.
However she never pressurized Cassie to answer anything . After all Cassie was her best friend , and maybe the only one she could truly rely on and trust at the moment.
Now she wanted to ask her about Sunny's condition. If anyone knew it could only be her.
She felt Hope.