BLINDSIDED BY DARKNESS SHROUDED IN GLOOM

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