Badges 15
Moments 172
If it’s an infinite loop, then the future can affect the past, and cause and effect can be backwards. Didn’t a character many, many chapters back describe a similar scenario, about Cat 4 and Cat 5 gates and the emergence of new Saints, but their theory was that the cause and effect was backwards? That someone becoming a Saint in the future caused the gates in the past?
If the Great River was an infinite loop, and the past turned into the future, having no end… then what about the Estuary? The existence of the Estuary was also undeniable. Not only was it mentioned in the descriptions of the Stifled Scream and the Shroud of Graceless Dusk, but it was the reason why the Seekers of Truth had come to the Tomb of Ariel, as well.
Shadow Slave
Fantasy · Guiltythree
We wish you luck, Effie’s Baby Daddy.
But then again… the guy had devil's luck. If anyone could pull through the winter solstice in Antarctica, it would be him.
Shadow Slave
Fantasy · Guiltythree
Because she is awesome.
"If this is really the last time, we might as well burn this entire island down."
Shadow Slave
Fantasy · Guiltythree
We enjoy Sunny teasing Nephis a lot ♥️
Seeing her face turn entirely motionless again, Sunny grinned and added:
Shadow Slave
Fantasy · Guiltythree
Trust Sunny to be absolutely bonkers and still get stuff done.
Was the Mad Prince… actually an ally?
Shadow Slave
Fantasy · Guiltythree
The answer is Oblivion? Maybe somehow this Sunny is the future mad prince who managed to loop back by erasing his own memories - and not that the mad prince is Sunny in the future. Shadows DO have wiggle room if they don’t like their orders and their master bungled the phrasing …
It didn't make any sense at all!
Shadow Slave
Fantasy · Guiltythree
Sunny worrying over nothing. It would be like this: Sunny: We’re caught in a time loop and I keep dying. Neph: Oh, okay. What do you need us to do? Sunny: Uhhh … wait here while I go grab Jet before the monster gets her? Cassie: Okay, see you in a bit. Don’t die this time.
It was a rather bizarre thing to say to someone, that they had been living the same hour over and over again without ever realizing it.
Shadow Slave
Fantasy · Guiltythree
They’re crazy enough to drink the tea first.
Still… it was damn good tea.
Shadow Slave
Fantasy · Guiltythree
She’s done that from early on, way back to the Forgotten Shore days.
"Sure? Why?"
Shadow Slave
Fantasy · Guiltythree
Meanwhile, Nephis reading this
Had Nephis read this already?
Shadow Slave
Fantasy · Guiltythree
If Spell tracked achievements, Sunny would get one for distance traveled on nightmare creature corpses.
"I mean... we are sailing a river of an Unholy Titan's blood on the corpse of a Great Monster. Moving back in time. And giggling like children…"
Shadow Slave
Fantasy · Guiltythree
Oh, that thing the legacy clans are looking for? Here you go, Sunny!
…Of course, there was also the black pyramid.
Shadow Slave
Fantasy · Guiltythree
The way he talks about Sunny… someone explain to Mordret what a frenemy is.
The scoundrel himself, meanwhile…
Shadow Slave
Fantasy · Guiltythree
The Incredible Adventures and Astonishing Deeds of Heroic Dreamer Sunless in the Cold and Dreadful Darkness of the Long Night, Abridged (Volume V)
Shadow Slave
Fantasy · Guiltythree
It can be both. Sometimes the wisest course is pure shamelessness.
"That's either a very profound or an entirely shameless statement."
Shadow Slave
Fantasy · Guiltythree
After the Mordret fiasco, I find everything suspicious.
…The big man had been the person to send Nephis into the Dream Realm. It was no wonder that he dropped everything to come and wait with the rest of them. Sunny felt a bit touched.
Shadow Slave
Fantasy · Guiltythree
It’s the best possible scenario for Sunny, though. Nephis didn’t make Sunny a slave. He’s been a slave since ch. 15 - just a slave on the auction block waiting to be bought. I do wish he’d realized that and chosen Nephis, but she’s still someone who only gave him one order: go do whatever, except stay here in this dangerous place. Sunny has just Ascended really, really young. If Nephis weren’t already his master at this point, Sunny would be screwed. The Clans have to have seers and divination capabilities, and the more he accomplishes, the more likely it is they’re going to take a good look.
There was Nephis.
Shadow Slave
Fantasy · Guiltythree
"Sure, Gere, sure. It's just a Corrupted Titan. Let's kill it. Why not?"
Shadow Slave
Fantasy · Guiltythree
To romance? Yes. Yes, he is.
He did not want to leave his comrades behind. Sunny could understand that… but there was no other way. Restoring two legs to a person was not impossible, if sufficiently powerful healers were involved, but it took time, and a long period of recovery would still follow. By the time Luster was in good enough shape to fight again, the Antarctica Campaign would be over.
Shadow Slave
Fantasy · Guiltythree
But don’t forget the Mad Prince in this scenario … it’s like he was thinking “well, I’ll freeze some plagues, but ALSO a whole ARMY for Neph … so much better than flowers!” Mad Prince Sunny is not just saving the day, but wing-manning himself.
"That there is an army of Awakened warriors, countless thousands of them, inside Twilight? All waiting for the defensive array to be deactivated, so that they could resume the battle against the Defilement?"
Shadow Slave
Fantasy · Guiltythree