After the kiss sunny and nephis sat on sunny's bed and decided to talk about everything that happaned.
Sunny continued: "..after i killed the winter beast i was done with the world and so i went to the dream realm and went to the forgotten shore across the hollow mountains. I spent one and a half year traveling them until i finaly got back." Sunny stoped giving nephis a moment to think about it, after a minute she asked: "how in the world did you manage to survive in the mountains for so long?"
Sunny lingered for a moment than answered:" it wasnt easy, i had to constantly remind myself about my existace or i would dissapear forever. It was hard but i did it." at that moment nephis hugged him and kissed his cheek. Sunny was happy neph cared for him, sunny continued while nephis was still hugging him he said:" after i got back to forgotten shore i made a graveyard for the sleepers of the forgotten shore and thanked them for their sacrfices. I also visited the cathedral of the priestes and took a torch from the wall and other things, i just put them in the mimic. After that i went to the soul devouverer and set fire to it and watched it burn, it was fun." Again sunny gave neph a moment to think about things. This time she only said:"thank you." They were still hugging eachoder.
Soon sunny continued talking about the events that happaned in the rest of the time between meeting her again.
After he was done talking he looked at neph and said:" neph, can you please say my true name."
Nephis looked at him and said:" what, why, that would mean you wouldn't be free, i dont want that to happen."
Sunny said in a calm and trusting voice:" just trust me, its gonna be diffrent this time."
Neph simply said:" i love you lost from light"
"I love you too changing star" said sunny in a happy voice.
In a secon sunny felt an unbrekable connection to nephis and so did she. Nephis asked him:" what did you do?" Sunny simply answered:" my innate ability changed from last time, its way better now."
Sunny was curious to see if he could see nephs runes even tought the ability was diffrent it didnt mean it did a 180 on the functuality. So he opened the runes and to his suprised it said:
[Cohort Member]: Lost from light, Changing Star.
He concentrated on her name and then saw her runes, but then he looked at nephis, she was dumbfounded while looking at the runes. After a few seconds she looked at him and said in a slightly suprised but mostly calm voice:" i didn't expect that would happen. What did you exactley do in the nightmare diffrent this time?"
Sunny said after a second of tought:" i killed 2 more mundane peiple, learned my aspect legacy and that is it. I was as suprised as you were when i got it. Im planing on using it on cassie, effie, kai, I dont know what the limit is but i doubt it is anything other than 7. I love you" he said the last part as he kissed her.
She returned the kiss and pushed him to lay on the bed. Sunny was happy she took the kiss but he didn't want to be a father before even awakening, so when she broke the kiss he wanted to say something, but she beat him to it and said:" i love you too, lets continue this after we return from the forgotten shore, how about it?"
Sunny simply said while covering his face with his hands because of how red it was. So he said:" sure, I'll make sure to save my first time just for you, my princess.
Now it was nephs turn to blush, altought it wasn't as clear as sunny's blush, it was clearly noticeable that her cheeks got a pink color to them. Both of them decided to go to sleep and rest to get ready tomorrow.
When sunny woke up he saw nephis resting her head on his arm while hugging him with her right arm over and left under. He smiled and closed his eyes enjoying the moment for aslong as he could. Not long after, nephis awoke and was suprised in what pose she ended up in, she saw sunny smiling and kissed his cheek and said in a levely voice:" good morning, my love"
Sunny opened his eyes and looked at nephis and said:" good morning, my sweet angel, i hope you rested well."
As sunny said that he tought about nephis sleeping and smiled more, she looked at him confused and said:" how did you do that." Sunny simply said:" do what?"
Neph just looked at him he heard her voice but he didnt see her move her mouth. She said :,i was talking about this,.
Sunny looked at nephis and said aloud:" i am liking this ability more and more. Not as mutch as i love you obviously." Neph blushed a little and sent sunny a memory of how he looked after he took the nebolous mantle off, and that shut him up.
Both of them knew neph had to go back to her room because they were going to have their brekfast soon, sunny and neph made a deal that she would come over every night to talk and hang out. After nephis left sunny went to shower and get ready for breakfast.
At breakfast sunny sat near cassie and struck up a conversation with her about random little things and what classes they took and so on. Sunny obviously took the wilderness survival classes and decided on instructor Rocks fighting class so he could improve in shadow dance.
Cassie asked some instructors to teach her how to live with being blind and some other things.
When sunny went to find teacher Julius to start his classes for the day he saw him aproaching him slowly and welcoming him inside the classroom, Julius talked to sunny a bit and asked him why he decided to take his classes, and sunny answered that jet told him to do it. After julius spent some time chating about jet and her behaviour like he was her father, it was kinda funny. Eventually julius noticed it was late and decided to let sunny go and rest because it was diner time and sunny had to take Rocks classes. Julius would definetley make sunny stay with him till the winter solstice without leaving the room if he could but he was getting old and weak.
Sunny thanked julius for his time and the lessons and he waved goodbye. After sunny finnished food and went to Rocks class he sent neph a message saying that he loved her, and went on his way, neph replied saying that she loved him more than anybody in the world. Sunny instantly smiled and then entered the dojo.
Just like the first time the first lesson was punching the bag. Caster got he same score, nephis got 1 more than the last time and sunny got 11 he could have used more strenght, but decided against it for obvious reasons. After that it was time for the 1v1 match, the exact same fight happaned between neph and caster witch wasn't suprising but a little dissapointing. Sunny managed to dodge 4 atacks from caster but got knocked out on the 5th. He could have dodged more but didn't know if he could win.
In sunny's room sunny and nephis were lying on his bed staring into eachoder's eyes not saying anything and not even chating telepathically, they were in silence looking into eachoder's eye's just thinking about life and what to do next.