'What's wrong with our heads today?'
Understanding that it was pointless to expect help from Nephis, Sunny sighed and turned back to Cassie:
"Did you see another vision?"
The blind girl trembled. Her eyes opened wide, once again filled with fear.
"A vision… yes, I saw a vision. An awful, awful vision…"
"What did you see?"
She was silent for a few moments, trying to remember. A deep frown appeared on her face. Finally, Cassie quietly said:
"I saw… a mountain… a mountain of corpses. Countless bodies piled on each other until they formed a bloodsoaked hill. And at the top of it, a tiny black seed was floating in a pool of blood… "
She grew silent, then continued:
"That was the past, I think. But then I saw the future… a future. It was us. Oh, gods! We were… we were…"
Her voice trembled. As though not daring to say something aloud, Cassie stopped.
Sunny waited for a while, then carefully asked:
"We were what?"
The blind girl turned to him in confusion.
"What?"
He scratched the back of his head. What were they just talking about?
"You were… uh… telling us about your vision. I think?"
Cassie frowned.
"...What vision?"
To his embarrassment, Sunny wasn't sure either. He just remembered something about the number five and… a seed?
For some reason, he felt as though that number was very important. But why? He had no idea.
"I forgot."
Suddenly, Nephis, who was standing nearby, lowered her hands and dismissed the sword that she had been holding for some reason. Looking at them with a bit of confusion, she hesitantly asked:
"Why are you guys awake? We need to rest. Something might get attracted by the demon's corpse, so we'd better return to peak condition as soon as possible."
Distracted and already forgetting about the conversation with Cassie, Sunny blinked a couple of times, shrugged, and decided to go back to sleep. None of this made sense anyway. They were probably struck dumb by exhaustion…
He felt so tired.
…A few hours later, when the shadow noticed the winged creature circling around the island, he awoke again. By that time, the memory of Cassie's warning was so fragmented and hazy that it seemed like a strange dream.
But the seed was already planted deep into his subconscious.
And now that it had blossomed, Sunny was finally able to fight through the haze of oblivion and remember everything.