Silent Darkness 소설 & 이야기

Plunging us into total darkness. ******************************************

Colors bleeding into each other. Sounds fading into the distance. And then — Darkness.

Letting all the lights and sounds of the world disappear, being replaced with darkness and complete and utter silence. ***

Darkness swallows my mind. And silence.

Everything went dark. ******

Darkness closed in. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

In one place, there was thunder and lightning, while in another, the night sky was clear with starlight. With the thunder rumbling and my heart beating far too fast, I collapsed inside my own closet.

And before I could balance myself, the ground simply vanished under my feet! My stomach lurched as the forest disappeared, replaced by an endless, suffocating darkness. Stacy and Carla’s screams tore through the void as all of us plunged into a black nothingness, swallowing every bit of light around us. This free fall felt endless, wind roaring past my ears, darkness swallowing every breath, until suddenly a loud thud cracked through the void below me. I recognized the startled cries of my fellows and tightened my grip around Liora, bracing for the same impact.

The darkness inside Tristan’s mind was no longer silent. It dripped. *Drip. Drip.* It was the sound of a leaky faucet in a pitch-black, empty mansion. Each drop was a microscopic leakage of the Void, slipping past the heavy iron vault door he had constructed in his psyche. He stood before that mental door in the landscape of his subconscious. The thick, Aether-steel hinges were warped, bent outward by the sheer, catastrophic force of the energy he had channeled to lift the *Mammoth* over the Widow’s Cleft.

Black as midnight. A phantom.