BLINDSIDED BY DARKNESS SHROUDED IN GLOOM

The world twisted, a sickening lurch as reality dissolved. It felt the sudden absence of sight, plunging into a suffocating emptiness. Panic seized him, a clawing terror that ripped through the soul. Every sense screeched, straining against the silence. A whisper, a phantom touch on its skin - was it real or just a figment of a mind fracturing? The