"I can't see."
Rain was in the dark PTV, between Revel and Sunny, the only one who could not see in the environment of darkness and shadows.
Marcus was laughing silently in the driver seat, for the first time in a lifetime.
Revel smiled and side hugged Rain.
"Don't worry, It's just for a while~"
"Why does it even have to be like this?! It's not like people will jump in front of the PTV just because you two are in it!"
Revel laughed, entertained by the girl.
"It's for two reasons, one, because we don't want your brother to be public knowledge yet, and two, because my flaw makes any type of light hurt me."
Rain got surprised and Sunny snapped out of his thoughts and looked at Revel.
"Already revealing your flaw to her Rev?"
"It's not like my flaw isn't obvious Sunny. I bet she already had some suspicions when I used my powers at her house."
Rain looked at where she thought Revel was and gave a thoughtful stare.
"Your voice was weird when I think about it…"
Lightslayer smiled even if Rain couldn't see it.
"Way smarter than those 'parents' of yours, it looked like they were going to die just seeing me!"
'Well, you are the daughter of a Clan head…'
Sunny decided to keep his thoughts to himself.
"But talking about it, what did you do to them? They looked like they saw a ghost when we came back, and how did the couch end up upside down?"
Rain asked.
"Oh… That's a story for another day~"
Thinking about it, the adoptive parents of Rain had to be even more scared now…
Even if they let Rain leave for the Song manor, with the persuasion of Revel, they were hesitant. Depending on what happened, they would lose rain forever…
Sunny's thoughts traveled to the last question of the father.
("Will she come back?"
Sunless answer was quick.
"That depends on her, either way, you will be compensated.")
Sunny looked at Rain, did he want her to live with Song? Sure, he would be elated if she did, his whole reason for accepting Ki Song was because he could help Rain, protect her and prepare her for the Nightmare Spell, and where else would be better than the Song Clan?
But seeing now, it meant taking her away from everything she knew, friends, school, everything.
Was it fair to her?
"We arrived."
Revel's voice snapped him out of his thoughts.
The PTV stopped and Sunless opened the door, letting light pour inside. Revel opened the other door and opened an umbrella to protect her a little from the sun.
As Rain got out and got used to the light, her eyes sparkled seeing the mansion.
"You live here?"
"And a Palace in the Dream Realm, it's much bigger than this manor."
Rain passed out.
—
After entering the front door, Rain was met with the biggest and most luxurious place she had ever seen, with decorative furniture and incredible details, paintings and beautiful columns enhancing the place in an incredible way.
Sunny and Revel looked at her with smiles placed on their faces.
But as she was going to say something, a tall man entered the hall through one of the doors of the manor, a serious expression on his face.
Rain could tell he was powerful, in a similar way to Revel, a Saint.
As he saw the group, his serious expression relaxed a little. He walked confident steps to them.
"Sunless, good, I wanted to speak to you."
His voice was light, but carried experience. Sunny sighed.
"Can't it wait?"
Sunny's voice was annoyed, well, Rain also was, she wanted to spend more time with her brother.
The Saint seemed to acknowledge Rain and the importance of this moment for Sunny, but remained firm, shaking his head.
"No, this can't wait, we have to talk about this."
Sunny sighed again, but Revel touched his shoulder.
"Go, if he is nagging you now, it must be really important, I'll stay with Rain and meet the others in the meantime."
Sunny sighed again.
"Okay, okay… Don't wander off Rain, stay with Revel."
He sounded it like a parent, and Rain had to nod three times so he could feel at ease.
With her brother gone, Rain followed Revel. They passed through multiple hallways to get to their destination.
On the way, they chatted a little.
"Sooo, everyone calls him Sunny?"
Rain asked, curious.
"Well, it depends, if by everyone you mean his sisters? Yes. Some of our mentors call him that, some don't. Why the question?."
Rain got a little embarrassed.
"Well, in my school people call me Rainy to annoy me, saying how weird my name is."
Revel laughed at this.
"Don't worry then. Here, there are all kinds of weird names."
Revel opened the door to reveal 5 other women, all beautiful, sitting on couches and armchairs, she knew most of them, the daughters of Ki Song, the most powerful Saints of Ravenheart.
All of them turned their heads to Rain as the girl felt embarrassment for being the center of attention of such people.
One of them sat up to get closer, her muscular build, her body was athletic and tan was imposing, she squinted her eyes at Rain with a smirk. It was Lonesome Howl, one of the Vanguards of Song.
"Who is this? Where's Sunny?"
Revel took a step and stood beside Rain and touched her shoulders.
"She is Rain, Sunny's little sister."
Everyone immediately got up and swarmed Rain saying a million things at once.
From 'You really look like him.' To 'Do you know he is an ass?'
It took a while, but eventually Rain was sitting in one of the couches, hearing stories from the sisters.
"... My accuracy was so bad it went to the second floor of the palace and almost got Sunny."
Moonveil recounted her first time wielding a bow. Everyone laughed at that.
"And to think you had just given him advice…"
Beastmaster noted.
Rain was still processing the fact that she was surrounded by such powerful and important figures of humanity…
And Sunny grew up with them, they were his sisters… Like her…
Moonveil then looked at Rain and switched the conversation to talk to the girl.
"But now… What about you Rain? How does it feel to be the blood sibling of the son of Song?"
Rain's nervousness was already high, now that all the women were looking at her, it got even higher.
"I-I… Well it's…"
She calmed down a little and breathed. The Saints patiently waited for the girl to arrange her thoughts.
"It feels… Strange…"
No one interrupted, so she continued.
"I didn't even know I had a brother until a few hours ago, now I am the sibling of a Legacy? And I don't even have the time to talk to him? And he's going to what could be a Death Zone tomorrow!?"
All the sisters had solemn expressions, not daring to stop her.
"I mean, can't Saints make him become Awakened now? Why does he have to go to the Winter Solstice?!"
Rain shouted and immediately lowered her head, noticing that she just screamed to the Saints… Her face was red with embarrassment.
"Sorry…"
"Its okay…"
Beastmaster spoke softly and continued.
"We understand, it is frustrating, to just let someone you've knowed for your whole childhood go to an unknown zone as a sleeper when you could stop it easily…"
"So why don't you do it?"
Rain asked.
"First, it's something we all did, going to the Dream Realm in the Winter Solstice and second…"
Beastmaster looked around his sisters, letting her gaze linger on Death Singer and Revel for a while…
"Did Sunny tell you how many adoptive sisters he had?"
Rain thought a little and responded.
"Seven, why?"
"There's only six of us here…"
Rain just now noticed. There were only six women here, only six daughters of Song were known to the public, all Saints.
"So where-"
But Death Singer interrupted her, answering her question before she could even ask.
"She's still in the Dream Realm of course! In the same place Sunny's is going!"
The atmosphere of the room got heavy, realization descending onto Rain and she understood…
"Even if we could, I don't think he would want to take the easy way and use us to skip the Winter Solstice..."
Revel said not as an opinion, but a fact.
"Because he will do anything to save Seishan, to save you, to save us."
—
Sunless looked at Seishan's sleeping pod, she was still in there, sleeping peacefully, well it seemed that way, he had no idea what she was going through, she could be fighting a Titan… She could die right now… And Sunless wouldn't be able to do anything.
Saint Lunae was behind him, his serious face was twisted in a sad manner.
"Why did you make me come here?"
Sunny's voice hid anger and sadness.
"To remind you, you are not invincible, it doesn't matter you are a legacy, if you have a divine lineage, a divine aspect, echos, memories, all is meaningless in the Dream Realm.
You are going to the same place that trapped her for 7 years…"
The Saint rested his hand on the Sleeper's shoulder.
"Don't underestimate it… I don't want to bury another child."
After that, the Saint left the room. Leaving Sunny to look at his dear elder sister.