The blind girl raised an eyebrow.
"How do you not know? I used my Dormant Ability to read her runes. You can do... whatever it is you do to look inside people."
He blinked a couple of times.
Right... he could do that.
Shifting his perception, he peered into the soul of the sleeping woman. She had a single radiant core, its brightness similar in intensity to that of a fully saturated Transcendent soul core.
However...
His expression dimmed.
At the very heart of the beautiful radiance, almost unnoticeable... there was a tiny seed of encroaching darkness. It was small and insignificant, for now. But Sunny knew that it would grow.
Because that was how Corruption was. It spread and consumed everything, until there was nothing pure left.
The woman might not be Defiled yet, but she was going to be soon.
'...She won't, though.'
The thought appeared in Sunny's mind almost on its own. He contemplated its meaning for a few moments, then tilted his head slightly.
'Right. She won't.'
For as long as the woman remained on Aletheia's Island, inside the loop, she was not going to be Corrupted - if she could hold out for a single day. At the end of the day, the time would rewind itself, and whatever progress the vile darkness had made would be erased.
Therefore...
For her, this island was like a sanctuary.
Was that why she was here? It had to be.
Sunny sighed, then looked at Cassie and hesitated for a moment.
"So... are we really going to wake her up?"
The blind girl shrugged.
"What's the worst that can happen?"
Sunny stared at her with wide eyes.
"What? Why on Earth would you say that?! You of all people should know not to..."
He suddenly fell silent, afraid that his furious whisper would wake up the sleeping woman.
However, he did not have to worry.
She remained peacefully asleep.
In fact, nothing they did seemed to wake her up. By the time the revolution ended, it had become apparent that the mysterious woman's slumber was not a natural one.
Instead, it seemed... eternal.