He is My Master

12: I Trusted You

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"By now I must have looked everywhere except underneath the floorboards. Where is that hedgehog?" Shadow muttered, thoroughly annoyed by now. He had been searching for Sonic during the last two hours, late afternoon becoming later still. He had been to the courtyard, the stables, the throne room, Black Doom's chambers again, to all of the four towers, even the kitchens, ignoring all the odd stares of passers-by who were wondering about the sudden wanderlust of their Prince, but of his supposed slave he hadn't seen so much as a single quill.

Shadow was just about to return to their dorm, hoping that maybe Sonic had gone there and they maybe had just missed each other, when a certain purple, very annoying reptile came running up behind him, and it wasn't Barney the Dinosaur.

"My Prince! My Prince! It isss outrageoussss!"

"Indeed. You're using up so many consonants nobody else has any left."

"Wh-what?!" Lazar stammered, taken aback by Shadow's muttered remark. The dark Prince had half-turned and said it over his shoulder, before turning around fully and giving an irritated sigh.

"Never mind. What is it?"

"We've captured your ssslave!"

"Sonic? Where?" Shadow tried not to let his surprise and sudden, irrational apprehension show, but his eyes snapped fully open nonetheless. A part of him was immediately concerned – if they said they had captured Sonic, did that mean that there had been a fight? Was Sonic injured? Somehow this question concerned Shadow a lot more than whether the blue hedgehog had blown their charade in the process...

"In your room, my Prince!" Lazar lisped auferegt, his tail swishing nervously from side to side, "It isss terribly, that blue-furred ssavage attacked Lord Drago! Hisss hip iss damaged! Oh my Prince, we apprehended him in your room, ssleeping, he could have hurt you next!"

"Attacked me? Laughable." Shadow tried very hard to stand in a way that did not suggest his left knee was currently wanting to buckle and refuse to work for the rest of the day.

"He issss not broken. It wass...perhapss a misssjudgement to take him into your private chamberss sso early, my Prince." Lazar was looking at the ground, choosing his words carefully, but it was obvious his resentment towards Shadow's treatmeant of Sonic was growing.

The black hedgehog scowled and his tone was just a fraction sharper when he continued. "I generally do not make mistakes, Lazar. I hope I am not making one by keeping you around my person."

"N-no! Of, of courssse not, my Prince, I wass merely ssuggesting-!"

"Where is my slave right now?"

"In the dungeonss, we resstrained him, we thought it besst to inform you before taking any sssteps-"

"Very well. I want to see him."

Lazar nodded and turned, and Shadow was pleased to notice that if reptiles had been capable of sweating, the purple lizard by now would have made for a nice (if tasteless) indoor fountain. But still, even if he was able to keep Lazar in check for the time being, the black hedgehog was all too well aware that obedience born only from fear was the weakest possible foundation for any ruler. If Lazar continued to suspect that something was wrong with Shadow and his stubborn slave, and maybe found some support, the reptile would turn against him as soon as Shadow let down his guard. It was a dangerous game they were playing and time was running out – they would need to find the Emerald soon, or else the Ultimate Lifeform could already see himself trying to explain where exactly he had found Chaos-powered hover skates in a medieval world in front of a royal court.