Chapter 1155: What the Future Holds

The flying vessel continued moving southeast. The members of the cohort remained at the stern, keeping Cassie company. They spent some time idly talking about this and that, then silently enjoyed the beautiful sight of the night sky. 

Safely hidden within the Crushing, they were temporarily safe from all threats. That feeling was strange… the only thing stranger was the fact that Effie seemed to have lost her appetite, somehow. Now that was an anomaly unlike anything Sunny had witnessed before. He wanted to tease the huntress, but changed his mind at the last moment. 

The quiet night put him in a contemplative mood. The thing Sunny thought about was… how hard it had become to keep a conversation going in the company of his friends, these days. Or anyone else, really.