Shadow Slave novel Chapter 2586

"Let me tell you, Crow Crow... those daemons all had a thing for unnecessarily huge structures. Why are all their Citadels so stupidly huge? No, really, what were they compensating for?"

Sitting in the crow's nest of the main mast of the Night Garden, many kilometers above the surface of the ocean, Sunny looked at the horizon with a bitter expression. Actually, no one was insane enough to get this high, especially because the masts of the titanic ship were designed to attract lightning, so he could enjoy some privacy here.

Which he did after spending a long, long time fruitlessly searching the endless expanse of the gargantuan ship for traces of Weaver.

Crow Crow tilted its head and gave him a contemplative look, then opened its beak. "Crow! Crow!""

Sunny sighed.

"Exactly! You make a good point. And what about their own size? Don't they have the decency to stick to one size, at least? Slayer did not seem that much shorter than Weaver in the vision... so why the hell was Weaver's reflection a hundred metres tall? What is that about, huh?"

'The tiny bird stared at him with its glistening black eyes.

"Short! Short!"

Sunny scowled.

"Who are you calling short, you soot-covered rook? Let me tell you, I can be as tall as T want! I am just choosing to be this size! A hundred metres is nothing..."

Crow Crow gave him a pitying look and cawed, as if proving the point:

"Soot! Soot!"

Sunny scoffed and looked away.

The coast of Australia, which used to be visible beyond the starboard of the Night Garden, was now almost behind them. And on the water below, a naval convoy of dozens of immense battleships was slowly moving into formation behind the Great Citadel's wide bow. Well, the batfleships had seemed immense when Sunny first saw them, all the way at the start of the Chain of Nightmares. Now, hiding in the shadow cast by the hull of the Night Garden, the alloy behemoths looked like a flock of clumsy ducklings following the mama duck.

Sunny saw a few familiar figures, as well.

On one side of the convoy, a giant killer whale briefly breached the surface of the water, then dove into the depths again. On the other side, a colossal sea serpent cut the waves with the spikes of its long dorsal fin while accelerating to catch up with the titanic ship. Soon enough, the serpent disappeared, and a man climbed the series of rope ladders to the deck of the Night Garden, careful not to touch the surface of the hull.

By the time Naeve reached the deck, Jet was already waiting for him, having descended from the runic hall as a torrent of flowing mist.

Someone else was waiting for the Saint of Night there, as well - a teenage girl with hair that glistened with an indigo sheen in the warm sunlight.

"Dad!"

Sensing the movement of their shadows, Sunny scratched the back of his head.

"Who's the girl?"

His eyes widened.

"Wait, is that Naeve's daughter? What... when did she become a teenager? I could have swom that she was five just a few years ago!"

He looked at Crow Crow and coughed in embarrassment.

"Well, I suppose that is how aging works... wait, how old is Naeve?"

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