Chapter 4: Lose Your Mind (Rewritten)
As Sunny became an incorporeal shadow, he thought back to what Sparkle had said, finding something suspicious within her words.
’She called me a shadow...’
It would have been reasonable for her to know that he had an affinity for shadows, if they knew each other as long as they did. However, she explicitly called him a shadow in the literal sense, which is something one would only know through his Aspect description.
Sunny wasn’t sure whether it was a simple coincidence, or if she truly knew the nature of his Aspect. He didn’t know if his past self had told her for whatever reason, or if she simply had the means to figure it out.
If it was the latter, he wouldn’t be surprised.
However, the most worrying part was the possibility that she was aware of Shadow Bond.
Although Sunny currently already had a master, and therefore couldn’t be controlled by another, the mere threat of somebody being aware of his biggest weakness was not something to brush off. If something happened to AR-26710, then he would once more be vulnerable to anyone else who knew his secret.
Sunny decided to be cautious around Sparkle, as to try and figure out what she did, or didn’t know.
Once Sunny reached the edge of the island, he used the chain to travel to the next with ease.
Here in the Sky Below, he was in his natural element, after all.
Sunny couldn’t travel through the empty darkness itself, but the chains were covered by an impenetrable veil of shadows. He could swim through them for as long as he had essence to spare, safe from the terrible creatures that lived on the dark side of the Chained Isles.