BLINDSIDED BY DARKNESS SUBMERGED IN SHADOW

The world twisted, a sickening lurch as reality dissolved. He felt the sudden absence of sight, plunging into a suffocating emptiness. Panic seized him, a clawing terror that ripped through his being. Every sense sharpened, straining against the silence. A whisper, a phantom touch on his body - was it real or just an echo of a mind fracturing? The