Cassie did not move for a while, standing there with her head lowered.
Eventually, she whispered quietly:
«What has she done to me?»
With that, she turned around and descended into the basement of the Ivory Tower, where the runic controls of the island were located.
Sunny was left alone.
He exhaled slowly and emerged from the shadows, looking in the direction where Cassie had gone.
Torment… did she really believe that her Defiled twin had been capable of doing something like that? The timeline didn't make sense, and Cassie knew it.
Well, it was a reasonable theory to make. Torment's power… Cassie's power… had to do with manipulating memories, after all.
For a moment, a desperate hope ignited in his heart. What if Cassie could restore the memories of him with her Transcendent Ability? What if he could make them remember?
But no… he knew that it was impossible. if it was, she would have already done so, restoring her own lost memories first.
«…I'm sick of it.»
He gritted his teeth and walked out of the Ivory Tower.
By now, the Crushing was of no threat to him. Sunny wasn't sure if he could endure its terrible pressure, but he also did not need to. The range of his shadow sense had grown enough to reach the distant islands, so he could simply step through the shadows to leave the Ivory Island behind.
He contemplated for a few moments, considering if he should.
What was he going to do, anyway? Live like a hermit in some godforsaken corner of the Dream Realm? Leave to travel the unexplored regions of this dreadful world, away from where any human could see him?
Jump into the Sky Below and try to reach its bottom out of curiosity?
Each alternative was as good as the next one.
Well, jumping into the Sky Below was probably a bit worse than the rest…
Sunny remained still for a while, thinking.
In the end, he did not use Shadow Step to reach the flying island far below.
Instead, he circled the great pagoda and headed toward the graceful gazebo, where the portal to the Ebony Tower stood.
If he remembered correctly, there was a chamber in Nether's scorched tower where the walls were engraved with countless runes.
Sunny had not been able to understand those runes before, or at least retain the understanding of the ancient daemon's words.
After his visit to the Estuary, however…
Who knew what he would be able to learn?